Abdellah Chicha

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.

Twenty-seven-year-old Nour has immigrated illegally to Marseille, where he and his friends live a marginal and festive life. From 1990 to 2000, Nour loves, grows older and clings to his dreams, damaged by the melancholy of an irreversible exile.

The story is about a retired teacher, Jaafar, who becomes a school principal and gets into conflict with a student over the student's hairstyle. The dispute escalates onto social media.

When Mostafa, an experienced diver, mysteriously disappears, his wife Hniya has no choice but to confront her brother-in-law over the sharing of the canoes, without which she will not be able to provide for her children. Although Maati refuses to negotiate in the absence of his brother, tongues will end up being loosened in this Moroccan village...

Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of southern Morocco in their old car and share double rooms in shabby hotels. They are exactly the same size, and wear the same suits and ties, as well as the same shoes. Paid nearly nothing, they try to play hard to make good figures. One day, in a gas station planted in the middle of the desert, a motorcycle parks in front of them. A man is handcuffed to the luggage rack, threatening. It’s the Evader. Their meeting marks the beginning of an unforeseen and mystical journey.

After long and mature reflections, Hassan and Ilham resolved to acquire their own accommodation, to finally free themselves from the weight of family cohabitation. Not having enough financial resources, the couple decides to take out a loan from Hamza their brother-in-law. A solution that will cost them dearly, because after taking the plunge, the two lovebirds realise as a couple that by signing this deal, they have somehow signed a pact with the devil... The nest that was supposed to bring them peace and quiet. Stability becomes the source of their troubles. Overnight, their dream turns into a nightmare...

Nacer, a 45 year old journalist, is observing the appearance of strange yellow sandstorms looming over Algiers and its surroundings. While covering the phenomenon for his newspaper, he starts witnessing more and more supernatural events, until his late wife Fajar returns to life. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir has to face a dark past that haunts him.

In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.

In one of the Moroccan villages, the competition is for those who are elected to run the village affairs, and then agree on the establishment of a football team as a criterion for competition.

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.

Yousra is young Moroccan woman who works as a fitness trainer in a sports center in Mohammedia. After having many disappointments with men, she finally meets someone new, Tarik, who seems to be really in love with her and wants to marry her. She doesn't know that Tarik has hidden from her his past as a drug trafficker but soon his past catches up with him and Yousra's life is completely shattered.

Thirtysomething Yousra, a former African Karate champion, now works as an Aikido teacher. She's always wanted to start a family but has yet to realize it yet and decides to recourse to a matrimonial agency. Her first date recommended by the agency turns tragic when the man is murdered before her eyes and she finds herself in the newspaper headlines accused of his murder.