Casablanca: One-Way Ticket to Paradise

  • De Casa au paradis
Genre : Political
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2008
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 45 (in minutes)

Casablanca, May 16, 2003. Fourteen young Moroccans are engaged in a collective suicide bomb attack. Hind Meddeb and Gallagher Fenwick leave on the tracks of the kamikazes at the origin of the drama. The terrorists had about twenty years and all came from the same district: shanty Thomastown, situated in the suburb of Casablanca. Thanks to the accounts of their neighbours, their ancient companions of football, their friends and one of their sisters, the spectator discovers the life of this shanty town, the sufferings and hopes of a part of Moroccan youth.

Director: Hind Meddeb
MOROCCO, FRANCE
2008, colour, 45'
Vers: Arabic - Sub: Eng
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Casablanca, 16 maggio 2003. Quattordici giovani marocchini compiono un attacco terroristico suicida. Hind Meddeb e Gallagher Fenwick si mettono sulle tracce dei kamikaze coinvolti nella tragedia. I terroristi, quasi tutti ventenni, erano originari dello stesso quartiere: la baraccopoli di Thomastown, periferia di Casablanca. Grazie ai resoconti dei vicini di casa, dei vecchi compagni di calcio, degli amici e di una delle sorelle, scopriamo la storia e la vita della baraccopoli, così come le sofferenze e le speranze di una parte della gioventù marocchina.

MOROCCO/FRANCE, 2008, colour, 45'

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Regia: Hind Meddeb
Sceneggiatura: Hind Meddeb
Fotografia: Said Ahfour, Martin Babic
Montaggio: Thim Naccache
Suono: Damien Tronchot

Premi e selezioni:
FIGRA 2008 (Special Prize of the Jury), Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles 2008, Rome Fiction Fest 2009 (Factual - Competitive Section), The International Human Rights Film Festival Paris 2009

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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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