ALI ZAOUA
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France - Morocco - Belgium
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 95 min.
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Ali, Kouka, Omar and Boubker, all twelve years old, are street urchins in Casablanca. The streets are their home and the people who live in them, their family. Their world is a jungle, a place filled with violence, deceit, prostitution and indifference. With nowhere to go and nowhere to hide, survival is a daily problem and friendship is an irreplaceable necessity. Then one day, Ali gets killed, his young life cut short by a rival gang's act of vengeance. His friends could easily abandon his body on the street, like so many others, but, helped by an adult, a fisherman who had taken to the young boy, they decide to give him a proper burial, a royal sendoff. This film is about quests, transgression, death and accomplishment. A film about life, in other words.
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Script: Nabil Ayouch, Nathalie Saugeon.
Phot.: Vincent Mathias, Renaat Lambeets.
Ed.: Jean-Robert Thomann.
Mus.: Krishna Levy.
Cast: Mounim Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zhayra.
Prod.: Nabil Ayouch, Martine Lambrechts, Playtime, 94, rue Saint-Denis, 75001 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 40 26 74 00, fax: (33-01) 40 26 74 01 / Alexis Films,, avenue E. Demolder 61, 1030 Bruxelles (Belgique), t�l.: (32-2) 245 70 73, fax: (32-2) 245 43 25, e-mail: [email protected] / Ali'n Productions (Maroc).
Sales: TF1 International, 125, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux (France), t�l.: (33-01) 41 41 15 04, fax: (33-01) 41 41 31 44.
Canadian Distributor: Remstar.
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Nabil Ayouch
Born in Paris in 1969, Nabil Ayouch studied theatre in Paris and began his career as a production manager. He has made numerous commercials in African countries. He has also directed three shorts and a feature: Les Pierres bleues du d�sert (1992), Hertzienne connexion (1993), Vendeur de silence (1995) and, in 1997, his debut feature, MEKTOUB. |
