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When they slept ( Morocco 2011 )

Color: Fiction CM , color, 17’

Direction: Maryam Touzani

Screenplay: Maryam Touzani

Director of Photography: Eric Devin

Sound: Said Radi

Music: Said Radi

Editing: Adil Mawaydi

Cast: Nouhaila Ben Moumou, Mohamed Achab, Fatima-Ezzahra El Jouhari, Oussama Kaychouri

Production: Ali n’Films

Synopsis

Amina, a young widow and mother of three children, takes care of her small family, with the invaluable help of her father who had a very special relationship with her daughter Sara. When he died suddenly, the little girl, sensitive and playful, won’t let anything or anyone come between her and her grandfather.

Réalisateur

Born in 1980 in Tangier, Morocco, Maryam Touzani studied university in London. Back home, she worked as a journalist specializing in cinema. This short film is his first experience in the fiction film.