North African Films

[Lotfi-dk]

Morrocan Film (still in Cinema)

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Moroccan/Tunisian film (still in Cinema)








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Morrocan Film (still in Cinema)

Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman’s complex relationship with local youth. Fred’s attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication




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Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Nabil Ayouch

Year:
2000

Time:
90 minutes

Language:
In Arabic with English subtitles

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Door to the Sky

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Farida Ben Lyzaid

Year:
1989

Time:
107 minutes

Language:
Arabic with English Subtitles

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FEMMES FEMMES


Morocco - 1998 - 1h38 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English
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LES AMIS D'HIER
( Friends of Yesterday )

Hassan Benjelloun / Morocco - 1998 - 1h35 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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RUSES DE FEMMES
( Women's Trickery )

Farida Benlyazid / Morocco - 1999 - 1h30 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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ALI ZAOUA

Nabyl Ayouch / Morocco - 1999 - 1h45 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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ELLE EST DIABETIQUE ET HYPERTENDUE
ET ELLE REFUSE DE CREVER
( She Is Diabetic, Hypertensive, and she refuses to Die )

Hakim Noury / Morocco - 2000 - 1h25 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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HISTOIRE D'UNE ROSE
( A Story of a Rose )

Abdelmajid R'chich / Morocco - 2000 - 1h25 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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ALI, RABIA ET LES AUTRES
(ALI, RABIA AND THE OTHERS)

Ahmed Boulane / Morocco - 2000 - 1h25 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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L'HOMME QUI BRODAIT DES SECRETS
( The Man who embroidered Secrets )

Omar Chraibi / Morocco - 2000 - 2h00 (35 mm)
Arabic subtitled in English

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[Anisa]

Thanks man!! This is great!

I'll check on Amazon to see whether they sell them!
I like the look of Raja.

[Lotfi-dk]

well some of these film aren't out on DVD yet. but good luck in finding the rest..

[Anisa]

do you know where i can get some any?

[Lotfi-dk]

Viva Laldjérie Release Date: November 26, 2004


A women living in a city that is slowly being transformed by Muslim activists takes a small stand for the glories of decadence in this comedy drama. Mrs. Sandjak (Biyouna) is a flamboyant and headstrong woman living in Algiers who, in her younger days, earned a living as an exotic dancer known as "Papicha." As Muslim fundamentalists begin taking a greater measure of control over the city, the decidedly non-fundamentalist Papicha finds herself living in a run-down hotel with her daughter, Goucem (Lubna Azabal). Goucem is an attractive twentysomething who works in a photo shop, and has been having an affair with a doctor (Lounes Tazairt), though to her chagrin he seems little inclined to leave his wife for her. Mrs. Sandjak has found a kindred spirit in her next-door neighbor Fifi (Nadia Kaci), a cheerful prostitute who sees no shame in her profession, and the former dancer makes friends with Tiziri (Lynda Harchaoui), a young girl who likes Papicha's brash style and wants to learn how to dance. One day, Mrs. Sandjak receives word that a celebrated nightclub where she once performed is being turned into a mosque; saddened and enraged that the city she knew is changing, she decides to find a venue that will still allow her to dance as she sets out to resume her career. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

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Rachida



This first feature by Yamina Bachir-Chouikh is a courageous, violent, provocative and disturbing film about the sickening social and political situation in Algeria during the worst years of terrorism. Rachida (a striking performance from Bahia Rachedi) is a 20 year old teacher in a popular region of Algiers. One morning on her way to work she is surrounded by a group of terrorists who try and force her to take a bomb into the school - she refuses, she is shot and left for dead. Though she recovers, she flees the city to live with her mother ( Rachida Messaouden) herself in self imposed exile since her divorce. Presenting a time in Algeria's history when both fundamentalist and government militias perpetuated crimes against the most vulnerable in the community, and the public felt impotent against the force, this is not easy viewing. Yet the portrayal of courageous women fighting its gratuitous, unjustified self-destructive violence, gives some room for hope








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INCH'ALLAH DIMANCHE





In the aftermath of World War 2, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In the mid-1970’s, the French government relaxed its immigration policy to allow the families of Algerian men to join them. Inch’Allah Dimanche provides us with a deeply moving memoir of the sense of isolation and vulnerability that the immigrant family experienced upon their arrival at a time when racial integration was virtually non-existent.
Zouina (Fejria Deliba in a richly emotional performance) is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her three children and her abrupt mother-in-law, Aicha (Rabia Modedem), she rejoins her husband in a foreign and unaccommodating land. She finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns her, a hostile mother-in-law and a neighbor (a comedic France Darry) who is afraid of Fejria’s otherness. But Zouina’s finally begins to feel a sense of acceptance when she meets a cosmetics factory worker who sparks in Zouina an interest in French culture and her new world. This curiosity, and her longing for freedom and experience, drives Zouina to take secret excursions with her children on Sundays, the one day that her husband and mother-in-law are out of the house. Through these little adventures, she comes to terms with the difficulties of immigration, change, and adaptation to a new culture.











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Un Reve Algerien

[Anisa]

Where do you buy your arabic DVDs from??

[Lotfi-dk]

I usually get them from Algeria, but I have seen a big collection of Moroccan films on sale in France, I think in morocco a new film comes out every 3/4 months which I think its good compared to other north African countries..