Further winners included Kamal Lazraq’s ‘Hounds’ and Lina Soualem’s ‘Bye Bye Tiberius’.
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother Of All Lies won the top award at the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival (Fifm) on Saturday, marking the first time a Moroccan film has ever received the coveted Etoile d’Or.
The hybrid documentary recalls the bread riots that shook the working-class Casablanca neighbourhood of director Asmae El Moudir in 1981 and features members of the filmmaker’s family “acting” as themselves. They include her feisty grandmother Zahra, who attended the gala screening of the film.
The feature premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes,...
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother Of All Lies won the top award at the 20th Marrakech International Film Festival (Fifm) on Saturday, marking the first time a Moroccan film has ever received the coveted Etoile d’Or.
The hybrid documentary recalls the bread riots that shook the working-class Casablanca neighbourhood of director Asmae El Moudir in 1981 and features members of the filmmaker’s family “acting” as themselves. They include her feisty grandmother Zahra, who attended the gala screening of the film.
The feature premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes,...
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