Anas El Baz

Acting

Anas El Baz

Born

1983-11-17 (42)

Place of birth

Rabat, Morocco

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

The Forgiven poster
5.8

Over 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

Zodi and Téhu: Princes of the Desert poster
6.7

Zodi, 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

Ransomed poster
6.7

In 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

Casablanca / Dakar poster
7.0

ALI, 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

The Unknown Saint poster
6.6

Following 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

2010s · 14 titles

Contagion poster
6.7

As 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

Queen of the Desert poster
5.8

A 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

Damascus Cover poster
5.4

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

Damascus Cover

2017

Honor poster
NR

The film depicts Zaid Ouhmad, an amazigh guerrilla fighter from the Ait Merghad tribes (tenghir) against the french colonial rule around the mid 30's in Morroco

Honor

2017

Ta mère ! poster
2.5

A family comedy about arranged marriage

Ta mère !

2015

Lmahaba ezzayda poster
NR

A troubled young man returns to his estranged father after years apart, forcing the two to confront their complicated relationship and the problems surrounding their reunion.

Lmahaba ezzayda

2014

Return to Bollene poster
5.8

Nassim, 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

Taxi Bied poster
5.0

When 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

8 Assassins poster
5.7

An 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

Pas si simple poster
6.2

Nadia, 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

The Evil Slave poster
8.0

Three lives collide and go over the dark side.

The Evil Slave

2015

Burnout poster
NR

BurnOut 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

Pegasus poster
5.5

Zineb 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

La moitié du ciel poster
NR

This 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

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