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Just like so many North Africans, a young Moroccan woman wants to reach Spain by the sea. But she'll face a lot of difficulties along the way.
Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
Suddenly, Omar a worn-out garment salesman, finds himself among the rich of the ancient city of Marrakech, finds himself among the rich of the ancient city of Marrakech, after he found a large sum of money in a pile of clothes, He decides to change his life, wearing a modern suit, and starts illegitimate with another girl, hoping to enjoy the happiness and tenderness that he missed during his marriage of Latifa.
Idris lives with his mother in an antique house in Marrakech; Idris is the only son of his mother who cares for him a lot, especially after the death of the father. Idris usually does not dare to take any step without the approval of his mother, who is working hard to marry her son through the traditional method, after completing forty years as a celibate, the mother tries to find the right girl to be the wife of her spoiled son
The nomadic life of Moroccan carnival performers forms the basis of this debut from director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Rabi, a female impersonator who dances with traveling fairs, teams up with Kacem, who hires him to ballyhoo his gambling concession. While Rabi's lack of romantic interest in women befuddles Kacem's son, he does strike up a friendship with a schoolteacher (Nezha Rahile), who in her way is as much of a misfit as Rabi.
Yussef is a blind twelve year old orphan leaving with his grand-parents in southern Morocco. His grandfather offers him a camera, and the two embark on a road trip to see the legendary blue lake in the middle of the desert.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
"Conversations with God" is the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions. The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job.
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.