YAFMA Magreb

YAFMA's from Magreb 
Saturday 22nd of april, 11:00 to 12;30 in M Leuven. Buy your tickets here.

HALF SOUL
2021, Trabelsi Marwen, Tunesië, 24 min.
Cast: Abdelkader Ben Said, Emna Halfaoui, Anouar Ben Nasser,...
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
Half Soul tells the story of a father, who is forced to sell his soul in order to save his sick daughter.

CHARTER
2022, El Houssine Hnine, Marokko, 18 min.
Cast: Sanaa Bahaj, Said Darif, Aziz Abdouni
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
Asso is a very religious man, but then he is faced with a personal dilemma: apply Islamic law strictly and in its extreme form or choose his family?

-in the presence of filmmaker El Houssine Hnine

PATHS OF WRATH
2021, Lina Arious, Marokko, 18 min.
Cast : Omar Killou, Mostafa Belaid, Driss Ech-Chlihi, Amine Abbassi
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
Jade is an athletic teenager who escapes the harsh realities of life in football. But then his father suddenly becomes unemployed, which marks a turning point in his life for Jade.

QUELD SEBT
2022, Imad Zaouaghi, Marokko, 14 min.
Cast: Rachid Amari, Jamila Youssouf, Jilali Boujjou, Said Mezouar
Spoken: Arabic. Subtitles: English
Ali, a young unemployed man, lives with his mother H'lima and his ailing father. They own nothing but a cow that produces only spoilt milk. H'lima tries to cure the cow, but Ali wants to sell the animal to move to the city with that money....

BOUCHAIB
2022, Ali Boudra, Marokko, 13 min.
Cast: Mohamed Mennani
Spoken: Arabic, French. Subtitles: English

During the colonial period, children could either attend Koran or French school, two completely different worlds. In the French school, the adolescent Bouchaib experiences alienation and the denial of his identity.