A Sunday in Tangier: Rock the Casbah
Ciné-dimanche
By Laïla Marrakchi (France / Morocco, 2012, 1h40)
With Hiam Abbass, Omar Sharif, Morjana Alaoui
Screening followed by a discussion with director Laïla Marrakchi and film critic Jade Moreau.
It’s summer in Tangier. Following the death of their father, a family gathers in the family home to reminisce and share their loss, in keeping with Muslim tradition. It’s time to leave the beaches and bathing suits behind and don djellabas, to bring everyone together and make the house feel like a funeral. The excitement is at its peak, especially as this man has left behind nothing but women. Everything is about to change with the arrival of Sofia, the last of the girls, the one who has made her life elsewhere. An actress who only plays terrorists in American TV series, she arrives from New York after several years’ absence…
Screening in conjunction with the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée”.
At the end of the session, extend the experience in the forum to discuss the film and taste a Mediterranean specialty: musical atmosphere, board games and workshops to boot!
Jade Moreau
Jade Moreau is a first-year Master’s student in “Critical writing, research and image didactics” at Aix-Marseille University. She is also a student tutor at Turbulence (Campus Saint-Charles), where she films lectures. She has also joined the editorial board of the LESA (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Sciences des Arts) review Carnet.
Laïla Marrakchi
Laïla Marrakchi
Laïla Marrakchi is a director and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with three short films, L’Horizon Perdu (2000), 200 Dirhams (2002), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and Momo Mambo (2003). She then went on to make her first feature, Marock, selected for Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival; and in 2013 her second, Rock The Casbah, featuring a prestigious cast: Hiam Abbas, Omar Sharif, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Morjana Alaoui.
She directed five episodes of the spy series Le Bureau des légendes. In 2017, she directed Zwaj el waqt, a documentary about love in Morocco, questioning the possibility of love in a country that forbids all relationships outside marriage. She alternates with directing prestigious series such as The Eddy created by Damien Chazelle and has just finished for the Apple platform, Carême, a historical series about the chef Antonin Careme with Benjamin Voisin, Jeremie Renier, Micha Lescot, Maud Wyler…
She is currently working on her next feature film, La Mas Dulce, which deals with the plight of Moroccan workers on Spain’s strawberry farms, and is due to start shooting next spring.
His films, which have won him international awards, deal with various aspects of daily life in Morocco.
By Laïla Marrakchi (France / Morocco, 2012, 1h40)
With Hiam Abbass, Omar Sharif, Morjana Alaoui
Screening followed by a discussion with director Laïla Marrakchi and film critic Jade Moreau.
It’s summer in Tangier. Following the death of their father, a family gathers in the family home to reminisce and share their loss, in keeping with Muslim tradition. It’s time to leave the beaches and bathing suits behind and don djellabas, to bring everyone together and make the house feel like a funeral. The excitement is at its peak, especially as this man has left behind nothing but women. Everything is about to change with the arrival of Sofia, the last of the girls, the one who has made her life elsewhere. An actress who only plays terrorists in American TV series, she arrives from New York after several years’ absence…
Screening in conjunction with the exhibition “Revenir – Expériences du retour en Méditerranée”.
At the end of the session, extend the experience in the forum to discuss the film and taste a Mediterranean specialty: musical atmosphere, board games and workshops to boot!
Jade Moreau
Jade Moreau is a first-year Master’s student in “Critical writing, research and image didactics” at Aix-Marseille University. She is also a student tutor at Turbulence (Campus Saint-Charles), where she films lectures. She has also joined the editorial board of the LESA (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Sciences des Arts) review Carnet.
Laïla Marrakchi
Laïla Marrakchi
Laïla Marrakchi is a director and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with three short films, L’Horizon Perdu (2000), 200 Dirhams (2002), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and Momo Mambo (2003). She then went on to make her first feature, Marock, selected for Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival; and in 2013 her second, Rock The Casbah, featuring a prestigious cast: Hiam Abbas, Omar Sharif, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal, Morjana Alaoui.
She directed five episodes of the spy series Le Bureau des légendes. In 2017, she directed Zwaj el waqt, a documentary about love in Morocco, questioning the possibility of love in a country that forbids all relationships outside marriage. She alternates with directing prestigious series such as The Eddy created by Damien Chazelle and has just finished for the Apple platform, Carême, a historical series about the chef Antonin Careme with Benjamin Voisin, Jeremie Renier, Micha Lescot, Maud Wyler…
She is currently working on her next feature film, La Mas Dulce, which deals with the plight of Moroccan workers on Spain’s strawberry farms, and is due to start shooting next spring.
His films, which have won him international awards, deal with various aspects of daily life in Morocco.