Synopse
Thelma and Luise in Morocco: a road movie about three women making a bid for freedom. Casablanca, Morocco. Three women are on the run from the police. It is the start of a long flight in a truck that takes them from the North through ever-changing vegetation: from the barren, craggy, red landscape of the Atlas Mountains to beautiful, verdant valleys. The difficult journey takes them ever further into the country, right down to the deep South. And the longer they are on the road, the more doubtful it seems that they will actually achieve freedom.
Kindly supported by AGENTUR REGINE SCHMITZ
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YASMINE BENKIRAN (*1984 in Morocco) grew up on the Moroccan Atlantic coast and studied philosophy and communication sciences in Paris. She has written two books about Morocco. Queens is her directorial debut.
Info
Original Title: Malikates
International Title: Queens
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Darija OV with English subtitles
Director: Yasmine Benkiran
Cast/Protagonists: Nisrin Erradi, Nisrine Benchara, Rayhan Guaran
Production country: Qatar, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Morocco
Year of Production: 2022
Length: 83 min
Producer: Amélie Jacquis, Jean des Forêts
Production company: Petit Film
Editor: Julie Lena, Florence Bresson, Stéphan Couturier
Casting: Marine Albert, Amine Louadni
co-production company: Mont Fleuri Productions (Saïd Hamich Benlarbi), Need Productions (Géraldine Sprimont, KeyFilms (Hanneke Niens), Deuxième Ligne Films (Marie Dubas)
World Sales: Grégoire Graesslin, Kinology
