Nabil Ayouch

Directing

Nabil Ayouch

Born

1969-04-01 (57)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Ayouch was born in 1969 in Paris, to a Moroccan father, Noureddine Ayouch and a French mother of Tunisian-Jewish descent. His brother is fellow director Hicham Ayouch. After his parents' divorce, he spent a large part of his childhood in the suburb of Sarcelles, visiting Casablanca in the summers. Ayouch cites discovering international cinema at the local cultural center, Forum des Cholettes, as inspiring his filmmaking career. Ayouch started his career as a scr…

Known for

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Leila starts a new life in a new home with her husband, Dr. Omar, following the loss of their baby to a miscarriage. Since the tragedy, she feels fragile and is plagued by unexplainable visions: a mysterious woman appears, seemingly trying to convey a message or plead for help. Day by day, the vision grows clearer as Leila’s health steadily deteriorates. Her friend Rabiaa suggests a getaway to the countryside for a change of scenery. Once there, Leila stumbles upon the exact house from her dreams along with the tree, and the woman’s grave...

Tiwerga

2006

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Hassan is an unemployed young graduate who is particularly unlucky or perhaps even cursed. After finally receiving his long-awaited job offer letter, he sets out to complete the necessary paperwork for his hiring. However, his mother warns him never to step outside whenever "Da Mouh," the man with the evil eye, is around. Hassan dismisses the superstition... Once outside, he trips and gets his hand stuck in a sewer grate. Paramedics try to free him to no avail, the only way to release Hassan is to saw through the grate. That is where things get truly complicated because the grate is municipal property, Hassan needs an official permit before anyone can cut it. Hassan's troubles have only just begun.

The damned

2006

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While a magistrate is quietly having dinner with his family, two hooded individuals break into his villa and take his young daughter and the housekeeper hostage... The criminals demand the release of one of their own. The judge tries to resist, but the threat is dead serious...

The Magistrate

2005

Calle Malaga poster
7.5

An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.

Calle Malaga

2025

The Blue Caftan poster
7.2

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

The Blue Caftan

2023

Razzia poster
6.8

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Razzia

2017

Behind the camera

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Leila starts a new life in a new home with her husband, Dr. Omar, following the loss of their baby to a miscarriage. Since the tragedy, she feels fragile and is plagued by unexplainable visions: a mysterious woman appears, seemingly trying to convey a message or plead for help. Day by day, the vision grows clearer as Leila’s health steadily deteriorates. Her friend Rabiaa suggests a getaway to the countryside for a change of scenery. Once there, Leila stumbles upon the exact house from her dreams along with the tree, and the woman’s grave...

Tiwerga

2006

No artwork available
NR

Hassan is an unemployed young graduate who is particularly unlucky or perhaps even cursed. After finally receiving his long-awaited job offer letter, he sets out to complete the necessary paperwork for his hiring. However, his mother warns him never to step outside whenever "Da Mouh," the man with the evil eye, is around. Hassan dismisses the superstition... Once outside, he trips and gets his hand stuck in a sewer grate. Paramedics try to free him to no avail, the only way to release Hassan is to saw through the grate. That is where things get truly complicated because the grate is municipal property, Hassan needs an official permit before anyone can cut it. Hassan's troubles have only just begun.

The damned

2006

No artwork available
NR

While a magistrate is quietly having dinner with his family, two hooded individuals break into his villa and take his young daughter and the housekeeper hostage... The criminals demand the release of one of their own. The judge tries to resist, but the threat is dead serious...

The Magistrate

2005

Calle Malaga poster
7.5

An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.

Calle Malaga

2025

The Blue Caftan poster
7.2

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

The Blue Caftan

2023

The Blue Caftan poster
7.2

A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.

The Blue Caftan

2023

Razzia poster
6.8

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Razzia

2017

Razzia poster
6.8

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Razzia

2017

Adam poster
7.0

Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.

Adam

2019

Horses of God poster
7.2

The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

Horses of God

2013

Horses of God poster
7.2

The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

Horses of God

2013

The People of the Clock poster
NR

A musician whose career never took off decides one day to start a real career as an artist.

The People of the Clock

2007

Everybody Loves Touda poster
6.0

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.

Everybody Loves Touda

2024

Everybody Loves Touda poster
6.0

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.

Everybody Loves Touda

2024

Everybody Loves Touda poster
6.0

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.

Everybody Loves Touda

2024

Hertzienne Connexion poster
NR

The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?

Hertzienne Connexion

1993

Hertzienne Connexion poster
NR

The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?

Hertzienne Connexion

1993

Mektoub poster
6.4

A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.

Mektoub

1997

Mektoub poster
6.4

A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.

Mektoub

1997

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets poster
6.7

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001

Zoubir and Jelloul poster
NR

The story of Zoubir and Jelloul

Zoubir and Jelloul

2009

Casablanca Beats poster
4.5

When a rapper-turned-teacher brings hip-hop to a community center in an impoverished area of Casablanca, his tough methods spark an explosion of talent.

Casablanca Beats

2021

Casablanca Beats poster
4.5

When a rapper-turned-teacher brings hip-hop to a community center in an impoverished area of Casablanca, his tough methods spark an explosion of talent.

Casablanca Beats

2021

The Blue Stones of the Desert poster
7.0

In a remote village in Morocco, Najib, 14 years old, is convinced that there are blue stones in the desert, whose vision has haunted him for years. Taken for a madman by his friends, he also faces the incomprehension of his family. Only the old sheikh believes in his story. One day, the council meets to decide on his case.

The Blue Stones of the Desert

1992

The Blue Stones of the Desert poster
7.0

In a remote village in Morocco, Najib, 14 years old, is convinced that there are blue stones in the desert, whose vision has haunted him for years. Taken for a madman by his friends, he also faces the incomprehension of his family. Only the old sheikh believes in his story. One day, the council meets to decide on his case.

The Blue Stones of the Desert

1992

Bone of Iron poster
NR

Three close friends need to find 120 Dirhams to pay for their friend's bus pass so he doesn't drop out of college.. but are confronted with harsh reality. The cry of despair drives them to the ultimate act: taking a bus hostage.

Bone of Iron

2006

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NR

When Tarik bin Ziyad conquered the Iberian Peninsula, the soldiers recruited the injured and dead bodies. one of the injured is Bader, Tarik's brother, who tells the story of his life (tachlhit film)

My brother Tarik

2007

Much Loved poster
6.0

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

Much Loved

2015

Much Loved poster
6.0

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

Much Loved

2015

Much Loved poster
6.0

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

Much Loved

2015

Her poster
NR

The synopsis is about a young man living alone who is pursued by a jinn/female supernatural being who loves him, turning his life into a nightmare.

Her

2008

Aya Goes to the Beach poster
7.3

The only entertainment for 10-year-old Aya, a domestic helper, is some TV and her fantasies about the sea. With her handicapped neighbor, she seeks a way to make her dream come true.

Aya Goes to the Beach

2015

Whatever Lola Wants poster
6.1

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

Whatever Lola Wants

2007

Whatever Lola Wants poster
6.1

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

Whatever Lola Wants

2007

No artwork available
NR

The story follows two women who travel to Morocco to adopt a baby, leading to an emotional journey of motherhood and human connection.

Run, With No Tears

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The story follows two women who travel to Morocco to adopt a baby, leading to an emotional journey of motherhood and human connection.

Run, With No Tears

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vendeur de silence

1994

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vendeur de silence

1994