Screening the week of Thanksgiving, this series is a selection of the best short films from Mizna’s 2021 Arab Film Festival. Including Darine Hotait’s Tallahassee, the audience award winner for best short film, these fan favorites each demonstrate the complexity of family and belonging, and they explore the importance of communities, both made and inherited.
This shorts program is only available in the United States.
Morocco, 2004. Adil, aged 11, spends the summer playing with his friends and waiting for his idol, Olympic runner Hicham El Guerrouj, to compete in his last Games.
The arrival of his father and older brother from France for a few days will mark him forever.
About the filmmaker
Saïd Hamich was born in 1986 in Fez (Morocco). He is a graduate of the production department of La Fémis and winner of the Lagardère Foundation Prize. He was executive producer on several films including Hope by Boris Lojkine, Neither Heaven Nor Earth by Clement Cogitore, Sofia by Meryem Benm’Barek or Home Front by Lucas Blevaux. He produced some thirty shorts and several feature films such as Much Loved by Nabil Ayouch––in co-production––Northern Wind by Walid Mattar, and Volubilis by Faouzi Bensaïdi. Return to Bollene (2018), his first film as a director, was a nominee for Louis-Delluc Prize for best first film.
- Year2020
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguageArabic, French
- CountryMorocco, France
- DirectorSaïd Hamich Benlarbi
- ScreenwriterSaïd Hamich Benlarbi
- ProducerSophie Penson
- CastAyman Rachdane, Fatima Attif, Younes El Khalfaoui, Ayman El Khalfaoui
- CinematographerMarine Atlan
- EditorXavier Sirven
- Sound DesignHugo Deguillard, Margot Testemale, Fanny Weinzaepflen
- MusicVitor Araújo
Screening the week of Thanksgiving, this series is a selection of the best short films from Mizna’s 2021 Arab Film Festival. Including Darine Hotait’s Tallahassee, the audience award winner for best short film, these fan favorites each demonstrate the complexity of family and belonging, and they explore the importance of communities, both made and inherited.
This shorts program is only available in the United States.
Morocco, 2004. Adil, aged 11, spends the summer playing with his friends and waiting for his idol, Olympic runner Hicham El Guerrouj, to compete in his last Games.
The arrival of his father and older brother from France for a few days will mark him forever.
About the filmmaker
Saïd Hamich was born in 1986 in Fez (Morocco). He is a graduate of the production department of La Fémis and winner of the Lagardère Foundation Prize. He was executive producer on several films including Hope by Boris Lojkine, Neither Heaven Nor Earth by Clement Cogitore, Sofia by Meryem Benm’Barek or Home Front by Lucas Blevaux. He produced some thirty shorts and several feature films such as Much Loved by Nabil Ayouch––in co-production––Northern Wind by Walid Mattar, and Volubilis by Faouzi Bensaïdi. Return to Bollene (2018), his first film as a director, was a nominee for Louis-Delluc Prize for best first film.
- Year2020
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguageArabic, French
- CountryMorocco, France
- DirectorSaïd Hamich Benlarbi
- ScreenwriterSaïd Hamich Benlarbi
- ProducerSophie Penson
- CastAyman Rachdane, Fatima Attif, Younes El Khalfaoui, Ayman El Khalfaoui
- CinematographerMarine Atlan
- EditorXavier Sirven
- Sound DesignHugo Deguillard, Margot Testemale, Fanny Weinzaepflen
- MusicVitor Araújo