The film is considered one of the first Moroccan cinematic tapes that tried to convey Moroccan reality with its traditions and customs to the cinema screen in a bold way, especially the issue of sex in Moroccan society, an issue that cinematographic works have always avoided before.

Said is a young man in his thirties. He lives in Casablanca with his stepmother Halima. Halima, separated from the young man's father, is opposed to Said's relationship with his colleague Hayat. Unbeknownst to his stepmother, Said decides to join Hayat. However, tired of his hesitations, she ends up abandoning him for another man.

This film revolves around the path of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Allabi in the seventies of the last century, but the mouthpiece of Allabi's wife, Jocelyn, who was bully to defend her husband's right to embrace freedom. She was embodied by prisoners of conscience's mothers, wives, sisters and mates who "hold half the sky," according to Chinese wisdom.

Said is a young man in his thirties. He lives in Casablanca with his stepmother Halima. Halima, separated from the young man's father, is opposed to Said's relationship with his colleague Hayat. Unbeknownst to his stepmother, Said decides to join Hayat. However, tired of his hesitations, she ends up abandoning him for another man.

The film is considered one of the first Moroccan cinematic tapes that tried to convey Moroccan reality with its traditions and customs to the cinema screen in a bold way, especially the issue of sex in Moroccan society, an issue that cinematographic works have always avoided before.

A portrait of a large Maghrebian city at the end of the century, Casablanca, through the intersecting paths of three characters: a bookseller who receives unexpected correspondence that forces him to question himself; a young teacher whose application for a passport triggers an absurd official investigation; and finally, a student who, due to a misunderstanding with his fundamentalist teacher, becomes the object of a manipulation with tragic consequences.

Settling of scores among international Marxist revolutionaries. A spirit of Mhedi Ben Barka inspired revolt.

Settling of scores among international Marxist revolutionaries. A spirit of Mhedi Ben Barka inspired revolt.

Directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.

This is the first documentary film dedicated to Moroccan cinema; Between Desire and Uncertainty hands the microphone over to the filmmakers and film critics. Besides offering a brief historical approach, this documentary strives to identify the different movements that push Moroccan cinema. Likewise, it also makes very clear the dangers that threaten cinema’s evolution.