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see all genres ›Morocco has attracted foreign filmmakers from the medium's earliest days (Louis Lumiere, for instance, filmed here in 1897) while hosting major film festivals and supporting its own small industry.
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Genres / International / African / Moroccan
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Let It Come Down
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author of "The...Watch Movie
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Mimosas
Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe's stunning film, MIMOSAS, is a breathtakingly shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Somewhere in the desert, a caravan is escorting an elderly sheik...Watch Movie
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The Road to Love
This romantic drama follows a young and apparently straight French-Algerian student, Karim, on a sociological quest to find gay Muslims. Through his investigations, the likable and handsome Karim meets a number of gay Arabs, from self focused Youssef to sexually aggressive...Watch Movie
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Our Children
Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Young and full of life, Murielle (Émilie Dequenne)...Watch Movie
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Ouled Bambara
Gnawa music is that of the ritual tradition known in Morocco as Tagnawit, "the craft of the Gnawi." The Gnawa are the practitioners of this tradition, be they the musicians or the initiates and clairvoyants who sponsor ceremonies and trance to the music. Their healing rituals are intercessions...Watch Movie
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On the Way to School
2014 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL interweaves the stories of four children from around the world whose desire to learn and better their lives through education forces them to contend with arduous, often perilous journeys every day on their way to the...Watch Movie
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What a Wonderful World
Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stony–eyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by...Watch Movie
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Pegasus
Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman found in the street muttering unintelligibly about the "Lord of the Horse." A flashback sequence returns us to Rihana's childhood, where her dictatorial father, horseman chief of his tribe,...Watch Movie
