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- Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. They do not do much, in fact they hustle rather than work. They are also unashamed dreamers, Karim believing in his "love story" with Nabila, a rich girl, and Adil contemplating emigrating to Sweden but never taking action. One day, the two friends go onto top gear by getting themselves into a big caper...
- Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.
- The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.
- Reda, a young French-Moroccan guy and his old father drive from the south of France to Mecca in order for the father to do his pilgrimage. At first distant, they gradually learn to know each other.
- In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth... A powerful and gripping French crime drama depicting a remarkable true story.
- In the beginning was Palestine, and the story of Younes (Orwa Nyrabia) began, known as Abou Salem, known as the Man, said to be the father of Ibrahim, fighting the English from the age of 16, still fighting, but retrenched in the Lebanon, illegal in his own country ; the story of Nahila (Rim Turki) also began, married to him when she was twelve, breast-feeding their first child, born during the villagers' exhausting trek towards the North, fleeing their burning homes, Nahila whom he met secretly in a cave in Bab El Chams, in Galilee. Again it is the story of Doctor Khalil (Bassel Khayat), abandoned by his mother in the shambles of the refugee camps, who, in Beirut, rescued Younes in a deep coma, lulling him with the tragic story of his people ; and yet again it is that of Chams (Hala Omran) whom Khalil loved and was executed by his companions in arms. Fifty years of history full of suffering, hope and love.
- Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a case involving a 14th century Moroccan legend, a vengeful spirit named "Kandisha".
- Sanaa, Zeina, and Nadia, three women who went through divorce, a harsh experience that they had to overcome and then get used to facing various obstacles on their own. Sanaa is that strong woman who dedicated her life to raising her only son, and to maintaining the successes she achieved in her professional field. Zeina is the housewife who cares for her two children and is hopeful that a miracle will happen that will bring her ex-husband back to her. As for Nadia, a lawyer specializing in family rights, she is the fighter who does not... Accept that anything transcends the values of equality, even if it is feelings of love. Fate will bring these women together, and a strong friendship will develop between them that will enable them to face life's difficulties and manage difficult and sometimes funny situations related to the status of divorced women in society, and also to recognize and reconsider their contradictions.
- Yehia, an Egyptian director from Alexandria goes to New York where he is reunited with Ginger, a woman he dated forty years ago.
- A young girl pick bitter oranges from trees. She unexpectedly falls in love. However, the sweetness of love tends to be bitter.
- The story chronicles the arduous journey of the rural girl Mariam who struggles in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous singer.
- Summer 1955. Kamal, an 11 year old boy of the Medina of Fez, is experiencing the last months before Morocco's independence. With Aïcha and the students of the Qaraouiyine, he discovers and takes part in the fight for freedom. These 3 months will change his life.
- From a remote mountain village in Tunisia, Kalt, a female hacker hijacks the airwaves in Northern Africa and France to broadcast political messages. When Julia, a French Intelligence officer, gets on the case, she flies in from France to infiltrate the hacker world and find out who is behind the interruptions. Things quickly turn into a cat-and-mouse game as Kalt and Julia play each other to get what they want.
- Ghita works as a manager in her father's factory and has a close relationship with him. However, El Mehdi's behavior suddenly and mysteriously changes, as he summons his lawyer for an urgent meeting, leading to a dramatic turn of events.
- A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.
- An assassin falls for a traffic cop in Casablanca, Morocco.
- Zeineb has always been strong-willed. She refuses, divorces, and asserts her will. Once divorced, she is free on paper, but remains enslaved as her ex-husband refuses to respect the law, hiring men to violently hound her. Should she leave? She follows Mhamed, who loves her, but who wants to emigrate himself. In the ensuing road movie that takes us deep down into southern Tunisia, the landscapes become increasingly desert-like. The beauty of the settings regularly carries the narrative. The couple, torn by this question of departure in reflection of a country that is losing its children, meet Ali who returns from America wealthy. Is he a mytho-maniac, an impostor? In any case, he is friendly and is himself torn by this painful uprooting vis-à-vis his sister who is forced to get by on her own. In one fine image, his justifications are drowned out in the noise of a passing train. Is emigration a mirage? A departure towards another form of poverty? Mouldi, Ali's sister's husband, denounces the drain of the country's best elements, saying, « It suits you to bury the past to absolve yourself. »
- Moroccan Scientific Police, solving crimes that practically every other crime lab has given up on. Led by Officer Zineb Hajjami, they track down perpetrators using the best scientific and technical methods to solve puzzles and catch criminals.
- My name is Georges Figon. Okay I'm dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn't going to stop me from speaking. Yes, I'm a shady individual. Sure I have links with the underworld and other dark forces. But luring Ben Barka, the Moroccan opposition leader, into a trap was mainly an opportunity for me to become a great movie producer. Nothing political about it. Just the big money. And my girlfriend, actress Anne-Marie Coffinet, will become a star thanks to me. I have already been able to sign Georges Franju as the director,Marguerite Duras as the scriptwriter and Ben Barka as the technical advisor of a film that will never be. What I didn't know is that I had hired the Grim Reaper as the Nemesis...
- Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
- It is the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco in 1981. Amina, accompanied with her seven years old son Mehdi, come to live with her father-in-law Ahmed in a small village in Morocco, after her husband was arrested for political reasons. The arrest of the father must stay a secret for Mehdi who was told that his father traveled to France for work.
- Salem (nicknamed "Zatat"), a smuggler known for his integrity, gathers his three daughters to announce to them that he has been asked by the merchants of his village to escort a caravan. With a heavy heart, the old man entrusts the responsibility of the house to the youngest, Aouïcha, endowed with a keen intelligence and an excellent speaker, she is also responsible for watching over her sisters. Weeks pass, resources are scarce and their father has still not returned. One morning, Rahhal, a companion of Salem, tells them that their convoy has been attacked by mercenaries and the only trace left of their father is his belongings. The sovereign Moulay Abid covets Aouisha, the youngest daughter; her only weapons will be her intelligence and her insight. So begins a series of adventures for the three sisters.
- In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
- The 40-year-old Omrane is in charge to find maid placements in Tunis for the girls from his village. But the most rebel of the girls has escaped and he has to look for her to get her back in the right path. The girl refuses to lose the freedom she just obtained. For her part, the young Fedlah who was enthusiastic by going to town quickly discovers a world where childhood doesn't belong to.
- In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes her. This misfortune gives birth to a son with very black skin. A few years later, in Senegal, Souleyman's father, a practicing Muslim, demands that his son find and marry Fatima, "his sister in Islam".
- A married couple move back to their old building, where their hateful and intolerant neighbors still reside.
- In Marrakesh, young Abdou spends his time harassing tourists and trying to sell them anything to support his family, but he suddenly finds himself after a chase with the police in front of a cabin of scientists doing scientific research in Al-Idrisi Mediterranean Map by means of a machine that emits a laser beam that penetrates Abdou's body and he disappears traveling through time to throw him in Almohad Caliphate, and to see the greatness of this ancient civilization,
- Fatima Zahra, reaches the age of thirty, and everyone urges her to find a husband. In every episode, she meets a suitor whom she doesn't like.
- The story revolves around a poor family living in a marginalized neighborhood in the city of Casablanca. The father is a gambling addict, the mother is an elderly woman, and the children face various conditions.
- Before leaving to settle abroad, Ahmad accepts one last job. He must audition actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre. On the road with interviewer Bissan and her cameraman Loumir, Ahmad goes in search of talent in the numerous refugee camps of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Hopefully for the last time, Ahmad experiences the insurmountable difficulties of life in Palestine: harassing searches at check points and borders, barricades, constant tension. He realizes the destiny of all waiting refugees is much the same as his own. He ends up guiding the auditioning actors into dramatizing what best embodies their destiny. But with the chance to catch his plane at risk, Ahmad could see the opportunity for his long-awaited exile slip away
- A radio jockey often discusses issues related to violence against women on her show. Her life takes a sharp turn when she receives a mysterious call from a female listener.
- In the late 1940s during the french colonial era in Morocco, El kamla, a widow who had lost her son, is getting forced by her father to marry El Hajj Ismail who have just lost his wife. She moves to her husband's house and started fleeing regularly from the house to search for her lost son.
- Allal, a hard-working man, works day and night to make enough money to buy medicine for his ill daughter. He decides to travel to Casablanca to work as a truck driver to earn more money.
- Aziz, a Moroccan macho, is changed to a "super feminist" after his wife casts a spell on him.
- A film with a comedic tempo, but also the story of a clash between men used to their privileges and women fighting for their rights. Fadma and her family spend the holidays in a small village in Morocco. Soon Fadma leads a rebellion of the local women, compelled to both work and take care of the households for centuries.
- Young Moroccan who is working in Spain with his mother, and his mother asked him to bury her in Morocco after her death. However, upon her death, he finds himself in a dilemma, as he does not have enough money to take the body to Morocco
- A depiction of the problem of being single, and how a girl who is late for marriage becomes a nuisance for her family, as the unmarried heroine, Fatima Zahra, reaches the age of thirty, and everyone urges her to find a husband.
- Set in Tangier, Morocco, a poor girl is raped by the son of a wealthy lawyer and aspiring politician. What follows is a story of " unpunished injustices, shame and fear, repression and power." After being raped, she is rendered mute. Her 13-year-old-brother is out for revenge.
- In the winter, the father of three girls dies, and they refuse to accept the idea of his death. Then, in the spring, the three girls start having emotional experiences, but they don't succeed in those relationships. Later, the fall arrives to deliver them a state of imbalance, and eventually the summer comes to give them a new opportunity to make love stories work.