Younes Bouab

In 7th-century Arabia, Princess Hind becomes a warrior to defy the ruthless Emperor Kisra. Forged into a warrior and aided by legendary bandit Hanzala, Hind unites warring tribes for a last stand—the historic Battle of Dhi Qar—that will change history.

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpinned her power. As buried lust and loneliness surge to the surface, her actions threaten to destroy everything she has built.

Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.

After several years apart, Myriam, a young woman from a Muslim background who grew up in Marseille, reconnects with Eva, who comes from a Jewish family, during the summer vacation. Together, they live out their youth outside the imposed norms. But this carefree summer begins to unravel when a tragedy upends the balance of their social and family circles—and soon, their own destinies.

A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for locations for the remake of an American film in which a man swims his way home, passing through the houses and pools that he finds along the route. Corrado is the stand in used to test the shots, locations and the swimming pools in which the lead will be filmed. While we watch his attempts to get into the part, the real actors and a real crew burst onto the scene, on a set in which no one is in the right place. A film with a crisis of identity, in a surreal search for itself.

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.

Farid was three years old when his beloved father disappeared. The elders whispered that he had fled Morocco for another woman, never to return. Farid grew up in the shadow of this repressed absence, got married, and embarked on a promising career. Then, a letter from Montreal arrived. The truth came crashing down, cruelly, after decades of lies: it was at the request of Farid's mother that his father had left them, and it wasn't for another woman, but because he himself aspired to be one... So Farid set out to turn back time and meet the long-awaited mother he never met.

Sara has just come out of a divorce that affected her deeply when she meets Said. They fall in love and get married, but the question arises, will this new marriage be enough to exorcise the demons of the past and allow for a happy life?

A man who has completely lost his memory finds himself caught between a woman claiming to be his wife and an intelligence agent who claims she isn't.

A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through Spain and France on a journey to get home and rebuild their rocky relationship.

His companion is solitude at the sea, and his moral compass is his faith. Hassan's entire worldview is challenged as the refugee crisis affects this coastal village. All individuals close to him will be affected by the decisions he makes.

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.

Kader, 11, tries for the first time to make Ramadan fasting. He is joined in this adventure by his friend Rudy who, as a non-muslim, sees this tradition as a new game. The two kids will have to resist against hunger, thirst and boredom.

In 2000, as the Hezbollah organization takes over Lebanon, Yossi, a Lebanese soldier, helps his friend Fouad to flee the country in order to avoid punishment, as he’s been working against them for 16 years. Fouad takes refuge in Israel with his daughter, Tanya. A few years later, a new war breaks out in Lebanon, causing tensions at the Israeli border. Yossi’s wife, Myriam, decides to go there and asks for Tanya’s help to look for their soldier son, who hasn’t given sign of life since then. This journey will allow the two women to share their sorrows and heal together.

In completely innocuous circumstances, Marouane meets young Hakim, a young aphasic, confined to a wheelchair who has chosen to live away from the world, alone with his inner demons. Interfering in his secret worlds will not be without consequences for Marouane.

In Casablanca, Ali, Hmida, Mbarek and Messoud are four unemployed youths who spend their time dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands. One day, Hmida falls on a specialist of illegal immigration, Ouchen. The four friends manage to collect enough money only for the departure of one of them, Hmida. Several months later, it still has not given any sign of life. Ali, Mbarek and Messoud discovering that he is not in Holland but in Afghanistan, they decide to go looking for him on the road to Kabul.

Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.

The3M: Malika, Moïse and Mathieu are friends, all born in the same neighbourhood of Casablanca, of different religions. A strong friendship links them. but, political events set them apart. They meet again and try to maintain their bonds.

Reda, a young manager of his father’s struggling publishing house, travels to a retired ambassador’s countryside farm to complete the memoirs that could save the family business. There he meets the ambassador’s aloof daughter Raouia and, determined to meet his deadline, must break through her reserve and earn her trust.

The news of his daughter Emma's disappearance sets Benno Winkler off on a journey that puts his convictions and ideals to the test and shakes them to the core. His daughter Emma's passport has been found on the Turkish-Syrian border and there is no trace of her. Benno learns that his daughter and her boyfriend Max have made their way to Syria in order to smuggle the family of a Syrian student into Germany.

Twelve-year-old Osman has a problem with enuresis. He spends his vacations with his mother in Meknes, at her aunt's house. He must absolutely avoid wetting the bed at their hosts' house.

Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room of the Casablanca's public hospital. There they meet Driss' brother, Houcine, with whom they have been in conflict for years. The doctor diagnoses a brain problem requiring immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful journey exhausting each one. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub's life?