Directing

Hassan Benjelloun

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Jugement d'une femme poster
NR

Thoufa, a dancer, and a mother of a girl, gets condemned for killing her husband.

Jugement d'une femme

2002

Yesterday's Friends poster
8.5

The Movie is a kind of tale, a look at a not so distant past that will allow everyone to make a judgment on the behavior of all the actors of this slice of history, of those who fought with courage and dignity. Those who took advantage and fortune.

Yesterday's Friends

1998

The Dark Room poster
NR

Based on Jaouad Mdidech’s renowned account, La chambre noire is a powerful reconstruction and reflection on the horror of what Moroccans have called the “Leaden Years,” when the government enforced an oppression of Political dissenters.

The Dark Room

2004

The Dark Room poster
NR

Based on Jaouad Mdidech’s renowned account, La chambre noire is a powerful reconstruction and reflection on the horror of what Moroccans have called the “Leaden Years,” when the government enforced an oppression of Political dissenters.

The Dark Room

2004

Le pote poster
NR

The story of the film revolves around the life of a young man who despite living in poverty, is struggling to become a lawyer and then devoted his life to defending and helping the neighborhood comrades

Le pote

2002

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Oubliés de l'histoire

2010

The Red Moon poster
NR

The biography of Abdel Salam Amer, the blind Moroccan musician who believed in his talent and composed immortal songs in the history of Moroccan song.

The Red Moon

2013

other's party poster
NR

Nowadays, in a working-class district of Casablanca, the daily life of three young couples living in the same house. Faced with misery, Tamou and Abdou try to get out of it, but can't find any money ... A film by Hassan Benjelloun

other's party

1990

other's party poster
NR

Nowadays, in a working-class district of Casablanca, the daily life of three young couples living in the same house. Faced with misery, Tamou and Abdou try to get out of it, but can't find any money ... A film by Hassan Benjelloun

other's party

1990

Al Rawd Al Azraq poster
NR

The film sheds light on the issue of cancer in young children and the subsequent suffering for them and for the doctors supervising the condition of this category of patients and their parents.

Al Rawd Al Azraq

2023

Goundafa, the Cursed Song poster
NR

In a small village in Goundafa, Morocco's High Atlas region, Said, Brahim, and Omar play music, dreaming of success and fame, while Fadma and the village women work the land with songs. The arrival of a new conservative imam gradually sows trouble and divides the community. His influence pushes some to deny their Amazigh identity, while others choose to rebel.

Goundafa, the Cursed Song

2025

Goundafa, the Cursed Song poster
NR

In a small village in Goundafa, Morocco's High Atlas region, Said, Brahim, and Omar play music, dreaming of success and fame, while Fadma and the village women work the land with songs. The arrival of a new conservative imam gradually sows trouble and divides the community. His influence pushes some to deny their Amazigh identity, while others choose to rebel.

Goundafa, the Cursed Song

2025

Where are you Going Moshe? poster
6.0

In the early 1960s, after Morocco’s independence from France, many of the country’s Jews clandestinely left for Palestine. The Jews of the little town of Bejjad plot their departure with the help of their rabbi. Once he learns of the Jews’ plans, Mustapha, the bar-owner, panics; if all the non-Muslims leave, the Law will make him close the bar. How will he avoid such a disaster? He’ll have to hold back one Jew!

Where are you Going Moshe?

2007

Where are you Going Moshe? poster
6.0

In the early 1960s, after Morocco’s independence from France, many of the country’s Jews clandestinely left for Palestine. The Jews of the little town of Bejjad plot their departure with the help of their rabbi. Once he learns of the Jews’ plans, Mustapha, the bar-owner, panics; if all the non-Muslims leave, the Law will make him close the bar. How will he avoid such a disaster? He’ll have to hold back one Jew!

Where are you Going Moshe?

2007

For the Cause poster
NR

Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Women have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themselves trapped on a bridge in the middle of No Man's Land.

For the Cause

2019

For the Cause poster
NR

Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Women have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themselves trapped on a bridge in the middle of No Man's Land.

For the Cause

2019

For the Cause poster
NR

Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Women have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themselves trapped on a bridge in the middle of No Man's Land.

For the Cause

2019

No artwork available
NR

The film highlights the suffering of couples when they do not have children, whether because the wife is barren or because of the husband is sterile.

The Silent Lips

2002

Jalaldine poster
8.0

Jalaldine doesn’t accept the death of his wife. Then he decides to isolate himself until he finds the light within him. 20 years later, he is a sufi master and lives with his disciples.

Jalaldine

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