From the 1950s until the 1970s, more than 60,000 workers from southern Morocco, most of them illiterate, were recruited to work in the coal mines of Nord-Pas-de-Calais on six-month, one-year or eighteen-month contracts.
These mines, which were doomed to close in the 1980s, needed a docile, inexpensive and, above all, disposable workforce. The man in charge of selecting the recruits in southern Morocco was a former member of the colonial armies, Félix Mora, who had previously been a "native affairs officer".
The film traces the life of this very special recruiter and the thousands of families whose lives he changed, for better or for worse. Some of the recruited miners returned to Morocco; others remained in France, fighting hard to obtain the right to bring their families over.
The film aims to restore the memory of this "chosen immigration" whose chief craftsman, Mora, was nicknamed "the slave trader" because he checked the teeth and muscles of his recruits before applying a coloured stamp to their torsos...

mit / estrelado / starring / avec
Fatima Attini, Hamid Oukattou, Ehdih Bachar, Josette Breton, Asmaa Bouykidarn, Moussa Akhedime

um filme de / a film by / un film de / ein film von
Khalid ZAÏRI

2023 | Morocco | Documentary | 87 mins


Titles | Titres :
MOUGHA YOUCHKAD - مورا يوشكاد
MORA IS HERE
MORA EST LÀ

Working Title | Ancien titre :
Le Négrier du Sud Face à la Mémoire des Mineurs Marocains


PRODUZENT | PRODUTOR | PRODUCER | PRODUCTEUR :
Khalid Zaïri

REGISSEUR / REALIZADOR / DIRECTOR / RÉALISATEUR :
Khalid ZAÏRI

Screenplay | Scénario :
KHALID ZAIRI

Cinematography | Images :
RAFIK ZAKAN,
MOHAMED GARA

Sound | Prise de son :
ALI BAMHAOUED

Editing | Montage :
YOUNES JADDAD

Music | Musique :
ØISTEIN BOASSEN


PRODUÇÃO / PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION :
ZK Prod

​PARTNERS | PARTENAIRES :
- CCM - Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Aide à la production cinématographique : 1 million de dirhams)
- Fonds Image de la Francophonie (Aide à la production : 35 000 €)

CONTACT (Print Copy / Diffusion du film, Festivals)
Khalid Zaïri | ZK Prod | https://zkprod.com/

Release / Sortie (salles) :
Maroc : 13 Nov 2024


FESTIVALS - PROJECÇÕES / FESTIVALS - SCREENINGS / PROJECTIONS (selection) :

/// World Premiere - Première mondiale | 20e Festival international du film de Marrakech - FIFM 2023 | Marrakech - Maroc | Screening - Projection : 28 Nov 2023 | https://marrakech-festival.com/20e-edition-2023/
/// Selection : Panorama du cinéma marocain | Festival international du film de Marrakech - FIFM 2023 | Screening - Projection : 28 Nov 2023

/// COMPÉTITION LONGS MÉTRAGES DOCUMENTAIRES | Festival National du film - FNF 2024 | Tanger - Maroc | 18-26 Oct 2024




Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- www.fnf.ma/detail_doc?id=OTEz
- https://zkprod.com/
- www.imagesfrancophones.org/catalogue/le-negrier-du-sud-face-a-la-memoire-des-mineurs-marocains
- www.labocine.com/films/mora-youchkad-mora-is-here
- https://marrakech-festival.com/films/mora-est-la-mougha-youchked/
- www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-zairi-81486420/
- https://cinema-series.orange.fr/cinema/tous-les-films-au-cinema/movie- mora-est-la_2023.html
Updated by Thierno DIA, 28 Nov 2024