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- The very popular Moroccan group Nass-El Ghiwane are filmed, in performances, meetings, interviews, and collaborations with other musicians.
- After the Spanish Reconquista, the Arab-Andalusian repertoire Nuba finds its full development in Morocco under the name Ala al. Fez to Tangier, through Seville and Paris, the pleasure of this music wins the novice as well as the connoisseur.
- A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. The police are on their backs day and night. They are enterprising, energetic, and full of fresh vitality. Despite the fact they are rejected by their parents and ignored by the world, they form among themselves a powerful example of solidarity. Ablakon is something of a different order. He is an adult delinquent and a swindler. Posing as a businessman, he has deceived a countless number of people. When he and his accomplice return to the village, his extravagant behaviour is mistaken for a sign of success. Following his example many young people leave for the city. But they will soon understand their mistake...
- The matrux is a unique form of Moroccan-Jewish music, fusing Hebrew and Arabic texts. The music and lyrics are derived from Andalusian traditions of music and poetry, reflecting the centuries-old link between Jewish and Muslim societies.
- In south Marrakesh, Morocco, amidst the olive groves lies the village of Oulad Moumen where Habiba and Yossef Edery began their family in the 1920s. Genini, the youngest of the nine Edery children, organized a family reunion in 1992.
- Listen to and experience the beautiful Moroccan-Jewish songs of Shabbat with Moroccan Rabbi Chaim Louk and his cantors at the Buffault Synagogue in Paris.
- While watching the rushes of Return to Oulad Mounen, a film shot in El Gara, where director Izza Edery-Génini spent part of her childhood with her father, she realised how important the weekly Thursday market or souk, the true vibrant heart of the city, is to the locals - and to Edery-Génini herself. It is this intimate relationship to this place that the director aims to explore, through unreleased rushes - treasures that have been lying in boxes since 1994.