We often get stuck in a rhythm, a pattern of movement that keep us in one place, tending to one situation, sometimes far longer than we intend. Whether (im)mobilized by convention or war or occupation, creatures desire movement and change: a push beyond the status quo, a changing of the guard, a revolutionary burst of energy to incite something different and new. In this series of short films, each film uses sound an image to explore the place between life and death, memory and forgetting, war and peace, and stagnation and movement.
Bab Sebta or Ceuta’s Gate consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. The border provides a scene of intense trafficking of manufactured goods sold at discounted prices. Every day, thousands of people work there.
Festivals and Awards
Best Experimental Short, Nova Frontier Film Festival, 2020
Jury Prize + Architecture Prize, International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2020
Grand Prix, Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2020
About the filmmaker
Randa Maroufi was born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco. She is a Fine Arts graduate of Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France), and Le Fresnoy (France). Maroufi belongs to a generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. She is currently living and working in Paris, France.
- Year2019
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Spanish
- CountryMorocco, France
- DirectorRanda Maroufi
- CinematographerRanda Maroufi
- EditorLuca Coassin
We often get stuck in a rhythm, a pattern of movement that keep us in one place, tending to one situation, sometimes far longer than we intend. Whether (im)mobilized by convention or war or occupation, creatures desire movement and change: a push beyond the status quo, a changing of the guard, a revolutionary burst of energy to incite something different and new. In this series of short films, each film uses sound an image to explore the place between life and death, memory and forgetting, war and peace, and stagnation and movement.
Bab Sebta or Ceuta’s Gate consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. The border provides a scene of intense trafficking of manufactured goods sold at discounted prices. Every day, thousands of people work there.
Festivals and Awards
Best Experimental Short, Nova Frontier Film Festival, 2020
Jury Prize + Architecture Prize, International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2020
Grand Prix, Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2020
About the filmmaker
Randa Maroufi was born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco. She is a Fine Arts graduate of Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France), and Le Fresnoy (France). Maroufi belongs to a generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. She is currently living and working in Paris, France.
- Year2019
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageArabic, Spanish
- CountryMorocco, France
- DirectorRanda Maroufi
- CinematographerRanda Maroufi
- EditorLuca Coassin