
Acting
Anas El Baz
Born 1983-11-17 · Rabat, Morocco
Anas El Baz was born in Rabat to a leading Moroccan Economist father and a teacher mother. In 2003, he entered the prestigious "Cours Florent" and started a four years training with Mélissa Broutin, Christian Croset, George Becot and Helene Marthy. El Baz earned critical notice for his starring role in "CasaNegra", Morocco's Box-Office hit of 2009, which garnered over 25 International Festival Prizes and won him The Best Actor Award at the Brussels Independent Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival and Muscat Film Festival.
Acting credits
6.7As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Contagion
2011
2.5A family comedy about arranged marriage
Ta mère !
2015
5.8A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Queen of the Desert
2015
5.7Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
The Forgiven
2022
5.5A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
Damascus Cover
2017
5.8Nassim, in his early thirties, lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancée, Elisabeth. After several years of absence, he returns with her to Bollene, a town in the South of France where he grew up. But Nassim must face his past: a dead city now governed by the far right party, a complex relationship with his family, and a father, he no longer speaks to.
Return to Bollene
2018
NRBurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.
Burnout
2017
6.7In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Ransomed
2023
5.5Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.
Pegasus
2010
NRThis film revolves around the path of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Allabi in the seventies of the last century, but the mouthpiece of Allabi's wife, Jocelyn, who was bully to defend her husband's right to embrace freedom. She was embodied by prisoners of conscience's mothers, wives, sisters and mates who "hold half the sky," according to Chinese wisdom.
La moitié du ciel
2015
6.6Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.
The Unknown Saint
2020
6.7Zodi, a 12 years old nomad, find an orphan baby dromedary in the desert. He takes in the animal, feeds it, calls it Téhu and becomes its best friend.
Zodi and Téhu: Princes of the Desert
2023
5.7An outlaw thief flees to a desert village where he is shunned and jailed. He soon meets a tribal chief who reveals his powerful heroism.
8 Assassins
2014
6.2Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.
Pas si simple
2010
6.5A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.
Casanegra
2008
5.0When a group of people takes a white taxi to go to Casablanca, they get in an accident that changes the course of their trip as the taxi, along with its passengers, gets held hostage by a drug dealer.
Taxi Bied
2019
On a journey to discover the Berber culture of Morocco, an Italian woman journalist and a Moroccan tour guide find themselves having to protect the lives of two children rescued from the grasp of ruthless criminals.
Le Chemin Du Retour
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8.0Three lives collide and go over the dark side.
The Evil Slave
2015
7.0ALI, a Moroccan architect, is working in Dakar, Senegal. His wife Mariam, still in Casablanca, is expecting a baby. With the onset of COVID-19, Morocco closes its borders to prevent the spread of the virus. Ali, who was just getting ready to join his wife for the birth, can no longer buy a plane ticket. He finds himself in a total impasse. He embarks on an adventure in a van carrying merchandise destined for Morocco. But to his great surprise, he discovers that the van is really loaded with Senegalese seeking to migrate to Europe. The trip from Dakar to Casablanca becomes a journey filled with misadventures.
Casablanca / Dakar
2025