Salah Bensalah

No Key

Two young thieves find a sealed jewelry box that becomes the envy of rival gangs.

Hounds

A father and son, live from day to day by carrying out petty crimes for the local mafia. Hired to kidnap a man and to deliver him across town seems simple enough until the man dies in the trunk of their car. What follows is a panicked after-hours odyssey with the police looking for them, the mafia expecting a live delivery, a dead body rotting in their trunk and they have no idea what awaits them next…

Moroccan Badass Girl

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her - especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigrate, but things don’t go as planned.

Bone of Iron

Three close friends need to find 120 Dirhams to pay for their friend's bus pass so he doesn't drop out of college.. but are confronted with harsh reality. The cry of despair drives them to the ultimate act: taking a bus hostage.

Terminus des Anges

A combination of three short films tackling the subject of AIDS, a subject approached by three different directors.

Intimate Enemies

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Tikitat A'Soulima

For the last screening before it closes for good, the Marhaba cinema is showing Spider-Man 3. Hassan, an 11 years old, absolutely wants to go. But he doesn't have a cent and his mother refuses to let him go with his friends. But Hassan has only one thing in mind: to go and see the film, whatever the cost!

Traitors

Set in Tangier, Traitors tells the story of Maika, a calm, conservative girl by day and a leader of an all-girl punk group by night.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Haysh Maysh: False Drama

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Cathy discovers to her amazement that life has not been kind to her, especially her parents, her fiancé, her boss, and society. At this moment, the worst day of her life begins; in other words, a terrible day in a sardonic Casablanca will redefine her destiny. Cathy decides to start over and seeks to immigration, but things don’t go as planned..

The Sea Is Behind

Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically abandoned him. One day, Tarik’s horse Larbi stops in the middle of a procession and refuses to take another step forward. Tarik will have to learn to live again and surrender to the colours of his life, which is the only way to escape the dullness of the world around him.

Prisoners of the Sun

A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

Le Clair obscur

A love story between a blind man who dreams of being a TV presenter and a young film student, despite everything that opposes them.

Masood Saida and Saadan

Masood, freshly released from prison, is tasked with finding Saida, a cabaret dancer who has stolen a mafia's safe key, leading to chaos when a monkey named Saadan swallows the key, triggering a series of unexpected adventures.

Good Day

The horrible, terrible, unpleasant, insurmountable day of Daoud who has to cross Casablanca to get to an important meeting on a day of Zemzem and cab strike while his own car is stuck in the garage...

Moul Ihsae

Lotfi, a census enumerator (counting demographics) or at least that's what he claims. Visits a neighborhood full of nutcases to interview and "count" them but everything quickly turns into a huge mess in a hilarious comedic frame full of twists about the Moroccan society..

The End

Casablanca, July 1999. With longtime monarch Hassan II on his deathbed, there is an air of uncertainty weighing on Morocco - and especially on one marginalized young man, M'key. M'key finds a surrogate father figure in "pit bull" police commissioner Daoud and finds love with the enchanting Rita, but Rita is kept under close watch by her gangster brothers.

The People of the Clock

A musician whose career never took off decides one day to start a real career as an artist.

Abdelinho

In love with Brazil and Maria, a soap opera heroin harassed by a corrupt contractor, Abdelinho suffers parallel ordeal in Morocco by pressure of Amr Taleb, a dogmatic, moralistic priest, enforcing religious purity on the community

Ägypten: Sehnsucht nach Unsterblichkeit

Around 3,000 BC, the first territorial state in history was created with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. The empire on the Nile was to exist for 3,000 years. The current section focuses on religion, temple economy and the cult of the dead and examines the reigns of Akhenaten and Ramses II. The culture of Ancient Egypt is characterized by religion, temple economy and the cult of the dead. Two pharaohs play an important role in this context: Akhenaten and Ramses II. When Akhenaten ascended the throne around 1,350 BC, religious customs in Egypt had hardly changed for almost 2,000 years. The influential priesthood was organized hierarchically and the rituals were set out in fixed rituals. The temples are not only the spiritual but also the economic centers of the country.

Road to Tangier

Moroccan film tells the story of four men at the age of sixty, living in the retirement home in Marrakech : Issa, Seddik, Ahmed and Taher. One day they decided to go on a trip to Tangier, on the way they fall into many problems.

Trip to Casablanca

A number of friends play cards and put the sums collected in the coin bank, a year later they will decide to take a trip to Casablanca, and there they are exposed to several situations and problems.

Nhar Lkbir

Daoud awaits the most important day of his life, the day he will meet the wealthy future father-in-law, to ask him to marry his daughter Ibtisam, but ahead of time to meet him David will face events that will change the course of the story

They Are The Dogs

Members of a television crew stumble across the story of an old man whose tragic tale dates back to 1981 during upheavals in Morocco, where he was arrested. Released 30 years later in 2011, he is now trying to come to terms with a new reality. The TV crew decides to report his journey as he sets off on a quest to find his family and his place in this new world.

The Unknown Saint

Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.

Cambodia

A classic car belonging to the boss of the local mafia goes missing from the garage of a mechanic called Kwika who had taken it in to do some repairs. kwika thus finds himself in a dangerous predicament with the boss who asks him to pay for the full value of the car within the month. kwika has no choice, he has to find the money but unfortunately has no way of doing so and has already suffered several threats and beatings by Kiama.With time passing quickly, he decides on the spur of the moment to sell one of his kidneys to a family with a sick child called Ismail, on one condition, that he has the operation in Singapore. kwika and Ismail leave for Singapore but first of all they touch down in Cambodia where they leave the airport and have all their belongings stolen. They are thus in a tragi-comic situation in Cambodia where they have to find a way of organising the operation as well as getting back home to Morocco.

Walud

2014: Amuna (44) and her husband Aziz (48), an ISIS fighter, live as shepherds in the rural Syrian desert. When he takes a very young, European ISIS convert as his second wife, Amuna's everyday life is thrown into turmoil.

My Friend

The film revolves around (My Friend) a young man in his thirties who works as a technician repairing televisions and satellite dishes. He lives in a modest neighborhood with his mother, who suffers from hearing loss, and seeks to travel to the United States by emotionally exploiting an American girl.

Zaz

Zaz, a man leading a simple life, has his life turned upside down by a video that goes viral on social media. His newfound fame leads him to be involved in advertisements and unexpected situations, creating tension with his family and drawing him into complex legal issues.