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Asmae El Moudir
MA EG SA QA 2023 96'
⚬ History ⚬ Human Interest
On a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.
"riveting, inventive" - IndieWire
"fresh, distinctive" - Screen Daily
“Beautifully made, atmospheric… Courageous but at the same time very risky" - Business Doc Europe
Director | Asmae El Moudir |
Producer | Asmae El Moudir |
Co-Producer | Mark Lotfy |
Production Companies | Insightfilms, Fig Leaf Studio |
Cinematography | Hatem Nechi |
Editor | Asmae El Moudir |
Music | Nass El Ghiwane |
Sound | Abdelaziz Glassine, Michael Fawzy |
Set Design | Mohamed El Moudir |
Directing Prize Un Certain Regard | Cannes 2023 |
The Golden Eye Documentary Prize | Cannes 2023 |
Cannes Un Certain Regard 2023 |
Sydney FF 2023 |
| Runtime | 96' |
| Spoken Language | Arabic |
| Production Countries | Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
Asmae El Moudir (born in 1990 in Salé) is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer. She studied at La Fémis in Paris and holds a master's degree in production from the Superior Institute of Information and Communication in Rabat and a bachelor's degree in documentary cinema from the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tetouan. She also graduated in 2010 from the Moroccan Film Academy in Film studies (ISCA). Asmae has directed documentaries for SNRT, Al Jazeera Documentary, BBC and Al Araby TV. She has won important national and international awards and her films have been screened in festivals worldwide and presented in co-production markets. After making a number of short films, Asmae completed the mid-length documentary THE POSTCARD in 2020. THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES is her first feature film.
