Rachid El Ouali

In 1960, Moroccan Jews began migrating en masse to Israel, encouraged by immigration officers of the new state. The film tells the drama of the story of two families, one Jewish and one Muslim, joined by a close friendship but whose destinies are separated. Selected by Morocco as a candidate for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture Foreign Language.

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.

YARA ZED is a Commercial Agent and goes around the world to sell a service for the less special …

Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandestinely reach the Spanish shores in the hope of a bright future.

As the son of the Sultan loves Aisha, the pampered daughter of the merchant, they both play tricks on each other to determine who is the most intelligent, a man or a woman.

Atil, born without arms, living in the care of his father, Noah, who lost his wife to drowning in the river. Jimana, came to Noah after putting an end to the life of her stepfather, the tribal elder, who raped her, forcing the three parties into the path to escape the dock with a murder.

The Green March is a film where the destinies of a handful of men and women intertwine, all united by the common goal of peacefully fighting for the freedom of a colonized territory, driven by the same dream: to contribute to the construction of modern Morocco. It is also the story of Zhor, who risked her life 40 years ago to bring her child into the world on the land of occupied Moroccan Sahara.

As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an episodic narrative, with three related substories presented sequentially. The Nourys shoot the episodes in distinct cinematographic styles (and with distinct overtones) suited to each tale, recalling Humberto Solas's masterpiece Lucia (1969).

Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.

Anbar, a naïve yet pure-hearted man, falls for a girl who vanishes mysteriously after her stepfather discovers their secret love letters. As he searches for work, he faces misfortunes and touching encounters with his quirky neighbors.

Hamid is shared between his wife Souad, his mistress Leïla, and his mother-in-law Hajja. Zhor, the servant is the guardians mistress. Brahim is Hamids scapegoat, until the day when he catches him red-handed. Hamid is blackmailed...

Allal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.

Thirty years after her father was killed and her house was burned down, Samra returns to her village seeking revenge from the tyrant who caused it all. But her mission will not be easy, and she will have to go through a set of challenges in order to achieve her goal.

Chef Rashid invests all his money to open his own restaurant, but the project fails, and in a desperate attempt to save it, he reluctantly enters into a partnership with somebody, unaware that he may destroy all his dreams.

As the famous lawyer Saad El Ghali lives a quiet life with his family, things take a shocking turn, the father tries hard to keep his family together, despite their vengeance-driven stories and their psychological conflicts and traumas.

Follows an elite police unit traveling across Morocco to pursue organized crime while confronting personal struggles that shape them into deeply human and empathetic characters.