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Adil El Fadili est un Réalisateur, Producteur, Scénariste et Monteur marocain. Il a étudié au Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français à Paris, France. Il est connu pour Courte vie (2010), Mon père n'est pas mort et La brigade (2011).
Adil El Fadili is a Moroccan Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Editor. He studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris, France. He is known for Courte vie (2010), Mon père n'est pas mort and La brigade (2011).
Sahar Seddiki est une chanteuse et actrice marocaine. Elle est connue pour « Wlad Lmarsa » (2021), « Par instinct » (2017) et « Souwlo Dmoui » (2021).
Sahar Seddiki is a Moroccan singer and actress .She is known for « Wlad Lmarsa » (2021), « Par instinct » (2017) et « Souwlo Dmoui » (2021).
Ecrivain et réalisateur, il exerce dans la production littéraire et cinématographique et contribue à la formation en audiovisuel et cinéma.
Writer and director, he works in literary and cinematographic production and contributes to training in audiovisual and cinema.
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Official Selection 2023
Sarkis, an old author in his early 90’s, is missing his only son, who lives abroad and is trying to express himself through his writings. He is an Armenian-Lebanese guy who was born and raised in Lebanon. Sarkis is not finding his muse; every time he tries to work on a piece of writing, the words keep on fading away. His heart and soul are with his son. He is constantly waiting to hear from him. But is he going to receive a phone call from him? Will he be able to listen to his son’s voice?
In a dusty attic, a tall dinner candle springs to life. As the playful and curious candle explores, learning to hop, skip and dance, it discovers a second candle. The two play and dance their way through the attic, falling in love. However, a shocking discovery is made when both candles realise that the heat from their combined flames, whenever they touch, causes them to rapidly melt. Splitting up, the two must decide whether life without the other can still be magical, or if they want to sacrifice everything for love.
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.
A young woman born into a remote Nigerian community named Song is confronted with her destiny from the moment of her birth, but she refuses to accept it and instead fights for her freedom.
With a mechanical prosthetic arm and his sidekick "Sleeping Cat" on his side, legendary craftsman "Jingoro Hidari" faces one of his adversaries "Inumaru" in a fight to the death.
Three children chasing after squirrels encounter invisible eyes in the deep forest and suffer from a strange sense of guilt.
In a world covered in plastic, Pete leads a nomadic life where he dreams of the pearly white beaches of Hawaii. Will his long journey bring him to a place not covered in plastic waste? A tale about plastic pollution stretched to the extreme and human hope for survival in a desperate situation.
Three friends are walking along a road. Between one who takes advantage of this desert path, the other who becomes sad,
and the third who gets angry, tension builds between them, giving way to reproaches... However, things are not that simple!
Tough skinhead Adam ignores his disability, depite it he tries to dominate his loved ones.
A decision by his caring brother to change jobs pushes Adam to reconsider his situation and and face up to his own limitations.
A young woman with an expressive body, evolves with flexibility but does not feel at ease in a life framed by traditional Moroccan society. Her husband loves her but does not understand her language, so he tries to control her until he becomes violent. The "baby doll" takes advantage of her husband's absence to create a world where she recovers her lost freedom, through dance.
Three 11-years-olds have a secret crush on the same girl, Eliz. While eating lunch in a school cantine, each boy is trying to top his love-rivals by coming up with a better and scarier story, each starring the devilish Eliz in the main role. But are these stories really true or are they just fragments of boys’ imagination?
Walking through a sketchy path, a delicate feminine voice narrates the story of Reda. A once talented choreographer that has been debilitated by loss, his lack of education does not work in his favor, as he tries to heal and rekindle his passion for dancing, despite having theaters closed due to the pandemic.
To live one’s last days in peace and fulfillment in the company of a loved one. Light and buzzing of cosmic orbs. Quiet, slowly trickling film rejects the consumer world, medicine, and eternal rushing and pays homage to peaceful old age with a touch of spirituality and intimacy.
This Art-House short film is about a musician who loses his hearing abilities in a traumatic incident that changes his perspective towards life, hope, community, day-to-day life, and above all: his own self.
A grandson returns to his ancestors’ village for the winter. A grandfather returns from death to see his grandson for one last time. A village unable to cope with the returns that occurred out of love.
Advised by an administration full of good intentions, Latefa and her two children Walid and Ptissam Frenchize their first names at the same time as they acquire French na-tionality. They face this unique ordeal with humor and lightness, just before the start of the school year.
A teacher tries to convey to his students the meaning of democracy through the collaborative correction of an exam in a school located in a remote mountainous location, while a communal election campaign is taking place in a nearby hamlet.
An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbour in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.
Sahra, an Afghan refugee in Canada arrives at Iranian ex-Dentist, Hamed's doorstep for help extracting her late father's gold teeth before they bury him.
Fatma is overwhelmed between her role as a mother and her responsibilities as a journalist. But does she have a place in this daily race?
A young woman self reflects to her first ever anxiety attack.
Nejma, thirties, arrives from Brussels to Casablanca for a work mission. At the request of her father, she visits her grandmother whom she has not seen since the age of 12 and whom she hardly knows. Nejma prepares to leave when an unexpected event forces the two women to confine themselves together. This cohabitation will not be without conflicts.
The Actor desperately attends the audition to get the part of his dream and to impress the director and the casting director. He turns out to fail a new casting, despite his marvelous monologue’s delivery. After coming back home, he texts his girlfriend about his plan to commit suicide and takes attempts to turn this plan into reality, but something goes wrong there…
2006, somewhere in northern Italy. A young mother and its children are waiting for their friends. Their arrival is not long in coming, the board is set. Young mommys, established upon the ground, conversate around a big table, with a sharp irony capable of comfort and cure and - a second later - hurt.
On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.
On a film set, there are always unforeseen events. Some days, it's all there is. And sometimes it's even worse.
The film explores the complexities of father-son relationships, the impact of trauma and guilt, and the healing power of forgiveness."
The story of a stage actor who has fallen in love with his director. He wanted to have a gender change but his conservative father does not approve this.
Vedran, a 15-year-old boy, takes part in a car accident. He makes amends to the wrong people by bringing them a ton of ice cream, which melts along with his hope for redemption.
“Introduction to Perfect Heists” follows the one night journey of Tarek and his friend Mazen, as they try to execute the perfect heist.
France, 1986. When Hughes, a young man from the French West Indies, discovers the new Freetime ad, it is a shock : France, the country where he was born, to which he owes his life and his identity, considers him a cannibal. This is the start of a radical awareness fueled by anger and frustration.
A man gives a political speech. As he speaks, his true identity is revealed. A homeless man, who lives in the Parisian subway. Haunted by his past, former leader of a conquering party, his field of action is now limited to the underground world, a place where he only collects a few coins everyday…
A bald girl and a young boy with long hair whose car has been confiscated due to lack of proper hijab are trying to solve their problem with the Tehran Morality Police without having to pay a fine. Police surveillance cameras have mistaken the boy for a woman because of his long hair
Cyprian, 10 years old orphan, raised by his beloved grandmother, dreams to become a real hero. Suddenly, his grandmother dies and a threat of an orphanage hangs over Cyprian. Now he has to confront with the real loss and realize what it means to be a hero in the face of suffering.
A forgotten house is re-inhabited while a strange presence approaches.
Aymen, a young Moroccan of 35 years old, decided to break this evidence, and experience this mysterious subject by going through the Muslim practice of washing and shrouding a corpse. A practice carried out by people of immense courage called The Washers. Will he be able to accept death after this sensation?
If you fall in love, you better go to hell “. Surfing is the iconic male dominated ideal of freedom generated by the western world. For Moroccan surf instructors, it's also more than a job. The paradise provides its attraction. But now the borders are closed. Beside the images, you follow the distant but intimate chat between filmmaker and surf instructors.
Departing from the port of Rotterdam to that of Beirut, the Lebanese artist/filmmaker, takes us on a journey through her feminist dream to work on a tugboat in the port of Beirut. A passion for ports and ships turns into a generational trauma due to the aftermath of the port blast in 2020.
After a big battle with cancer, Carine has only one solution to keep her life; organs' donation. In a country where everyone is born a donor, transplantation was a realist-savior phenomenon. But if this French scenario was placed in a Lebanese setting, would Carine still be here today to tell us her story?
Samih , Omar, Rayan and Malak are young journalists who lives in Shatila Camp, located in Beirut, Lebanon. These four millennial refugees work to create a local cinema club in the camp,to screen new films for youth in Shatila hoping to create any change there.
The story of a group of outstanding individuals living on the streets of New York City. Along the way, each person describes their approach of love.
This is a video diary of my feelings, in which I documented my emotional states during the full-scale invasion of my country - Ukraine.
The impressive story of a woman with an immigrant background who fought for her existence and her determination to obtain a better socio-economic situation in her personal and professional life