Halima Elkhatabi

Nina ventures out with her friends to escape the relentless demands of teen motherhood in Montreal filmmaker Halima Elkhatabi's stirring look at a 16-year-old's inability to grasp the implications of her actions.

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatab

Sana, a 58-year-old Montrealer, learns she has an unknown, unnamed, probably incurable disease. Offered treatment that is as vague as it is uncertain, she decides—under the influence of her older sister—to return to southern Morocco to undergo an ancestral ritual with a young, mysterious Gnawa musician in her native land. Not knowing for sure whether she is actually seeking a cure, together with Aya, her 24-year-old daughter, Sana embarks on a road trip that takes them on a tumultuous and overwhelming journey of initiation that may prove to be their last journey together.

Halima Elkhatabi’s disarming documentary eavesdrops on dozens of Montrealers as they interview one another in the hopes of finding a roommate they won’t want to change the locks on after a week.

Nina ventures out with her friends to escape the relentless demands of teen motherhood in Montreal filmmaker Halima Elkhatabi's stirring look at a 16-year-old's inability to grasp the implications of her actions.

Nina ventures out with her friends to escape the relentless demands of teen motherhood in Montreal filmmaker Halima Elkhatabi's stirring look at a 16-year-old's inability to grasp the implications of her actions.

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatab

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatab

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatab

Sana, a 58-year-old Montrealer, learns she has an unknown, unnamed, probably incurable disease. Offered treatment that is as vague as it is uncertain, she decides—under the influence of her older sister—to return to southern Morocco to undergo an ancestral ritual with a young, mysterious Gnawa musician in her native land. Not knowing for sure whether she is actually seeking a cure, together with Aya, her 24-year-old daughter, Sana embarks on a road trip that takes them on a tumultuous and overwhelming journey of initiation that may prove to be their last journey together.

Halima Elkhatabi’s disarming documentary eavesdrops on dozens of Montrealers as they interview one another in the hopes of finding a roommate they won’t want to change the locks on after a week.

Halima Elkhatabi’s disarming documentary eavesdrops on dozens of Montrealers as they interview one another in the hopes of finding a roommate they won’t want to change the locks on after a week.