Abu Musa's Women Neighbors

  • Vecinas de Abu Musa (Las)
Genre : Historical
Type : Fiction
Original title : Jarat Abi Musa
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, History/society
Year of production : 2003
Format : Feature
Running time : 122 (in minutes)

Beginning in the 14th century port city of Sale, the novel follows the circuitous path of the beautiful and virtuous Shamah, whose sudden rise from cowherd's daughter to wife of a the Sultan's counsel leads her through teh cloistered ways of palace ladies into a teeming world of corruption, adventure, and tests of faith. A film by Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi Maroc, 2003, Fiction, 2h02, Drama / History starring Mohamed Miftah, Naïma Lemcherki, Ahmed Taïb El Alj and Bouchra Charaf adapted from "Jarat Abi Musa" (novel, Ahmed Toufiq, 1997)

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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