The film takes places in the old Casablanca Medina, a historical part of the Moroccan city. The film portrays a group of women who have been living there their whole life. Together, they portray a complex image of working-class Moroccan women, urban and modern women who are far from corresponding to the clichés that often portray them as being submissive or lustful, clichés imagined by orientalists for years. Between tears and laughter, the film director shared their everyday life for months, at the hammam, at their homes or in the alleys of the old city. Through the eyes of the Batalett (heroines) who reinvent their own little world every day, we witness the major events that took place in Morocco in 2000: King Hassan II's death (August 99), womens' marches for their rights (March 2000) and the reality of immigration.

Langue: Arabic (French subtitles).

Sound egineer : Tourya Ennadre 
Editing : Barbara Pueyo 
Production : Samir Abdallah/L'Yeux Ouverts, Les Films de la Passerelle (France), RTBF (Belgique), Image Plus. 
With:  DAJI Saadia, Naji Zineb, ARAFA Najate, HOURMATALLAH Zhor, FORSA Latifa, EL HOUAG Saadia

Updated: March 12th, 2002

Festivals: MILAN COE 2001
Médias Nord-Sud 2001 - prix Nord-Sud
AMIENS 2001
MONTPELLIER 2001
Biennale des Cinémas Arabes à Paris 2002
MICA 2003
FIPA 2001

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