Obsessed by the memory of a past love, a woman takes refuge in the contemplation of butterflies that seem to populate a mysterious forest. In the grip of a complex feeling of bittersweet nostalgia, she brings together daydream and reality, fantasy and frustration, pleasure and pain. Believing she is escaping reality, the woman actually confronts it and unconsciously prepares for a rebirth. Shadow of the Butterflies is a beautifully animated mediation on life and love.

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The Shadow of the Butterflies

Obsessed by the memory of a past love, a woman takes refuge in the contemplation of butterflies that seem to populate a mysterious forest.

Zineb is a convicted drug dealer nearing the end of her prison sentence. When the authorities threaten to place her misbehaving daughter Ines in a child protection center, Zineb breaks out of jail, collects the girl, hijacks a truck, and takes to the road. Asma, a young mechanic who happens to be a passenger in the truck, and is forced to act as a driver for Zineb and Ines. The trio embark on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to finally reach the Atlantic ocean.

Queens

On the run from police, a trio of women embark on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to finally reach the Atlantic ocean.

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Queens & The Shadow of the Butterflies

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