Omar Lotfi

Acting

Omar Lotfi

Born 1983-11-08 · Casablanca, Morocco

Acting credits

Des... Espoirs poster
NR

Amine is a brilliant young architect who, despite a successful career, mistrusts women due to trauma from his youth. That all changes the day he meets Leila, a beautiful cabaret dancer. He falls madly in love with her and dreams of stealing her away. However, Leila is indebted to Momo, her violent and jealous patron. Will Amine be able to overcome his past to succeed in the present?

Des... Espoirs

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NR

During a reception organized on the occasion of Ghita's 44th anniversary, friends and family members of Said and Ghita will be confronted with unexpected events serious enough to provoke disturbing reactions, starting points of questioning the little material and emotional comforts by which all this little world was surrounded.

The Birthday

2014

Malak poster
NR

Malak, a teen girl, discovers she's pregnant. Rejected by the baby's dad, she faces a world that rejects her for being a single mum.

Malak

2012

Achoura poster
5.4

Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.

Achoura

2020

Love in the Medina poster
NR

In the Medina of Casablanca, Thami, a young man from a conservative family with a lineage of honourable Koranic lawyers, incenses his father as he decides to enter the profession of butchery. Whilst handling the meats, he soon discovers another taboo passion: women and love. “Love in the Medina” is about a journey of initiation, a quest for freedom and Thami’s revolution of romance in ever-changing Morocco.

Love in the Medina

2011

Mira poster
NR

In a quiet Moroccan village nestled between sun-baked hills, 13-year-old Mira lives with her stern, widowed grandmother, Zainab. Her world is simple. Trees. Traps. The flutter of wings. Mira spends her days freeing wild birds, chasing shadows through pine-scented forests. But one day, strangers arrive. Illegal immigrants. Foreign. Silent. Hunted. They speak in a language she doesn't know – but something in her stirs.

Mira

2025

A Day and a Night poster
NR

In a remote village in the mountains, Yzza is still waiting for the monthly package of medicine that her husband Hossein sends to treat their daughter. Failing to have the medicine being a matter of life and death, Yzza decides to go to Casablanca to fetch it. Without a proper address and with little money in her bag, this inexperienced, religious, naïve woman does not even fathom that Casablanca is an enormous metropolis, very far from her little rural village. Yzza’s bag is stolen and in her misfortune Yzza meets a young woman, a prostitute wanted by the police. From adventure to adventure, Yzza discovers the workings of an absurd society where her sensible codes are pushed and shoved. Director Naoufel Berraoui skillfully knits the portrayal of a city swarming with cars and people with the dramatic lives of his characters. A remarkable cast directed with sensitivity in a poignant drama with documentary-like accents.

A Day and a Night

2013

The Miscreants poster
7.0

On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show.

The Miscreants

2011

Stranded poster
5.2

Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .

Stranded

2010

Liberté Emprisonnée poster
NR

Mehdi, a young quadriplegic man living with his mother, receives an unexpected gift on his birthday. Through an intimate and sensitive atmosphere, this Moroccan short film by Sara Mikayil explores freedom, desire, and confinement.

Liberté Emprisonnée

2013

Mirages poster
4.8

Five people with contrasting profiles compete for a position within Matsuika, a multinational corporation recently set up in Morocco. Following an interview with the C.E.O., they are advised to undertake a mysterious test in a secret location. It will determine who will hold the position. All five applicants accept and are led into a distressing bus with no windows. After endless driving, an accident occurs with the candidates trapped in the wreck. Thanks to a joint effort, they manage to evacuate the bus only to find themselves lost in the desert with their driver nowhere to be found. They start to wander, questioning the nature of the accident. Is it part of the test? Despite their will to survive and an urge to find clues, mirages of their most intimate fears begin to haunt them.

Mirages

2011

Casanegra poster
6.5

A 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

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NR

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

The Rif Lover poster
NR

Aya only dreams of finding love like her favorite opera character Carmen. But the person who steals her heart is a powerful hashish trafficker known as The Baron. After buying her virginity from her brothers, he soon reveals himself to be an illusory prince charming.

The Rif Lover

2011

My Dad is not Dead poster
NR

Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. Mehdi gives his son five special paintings. Curious Malik is dazzled by the beauty of these works. The next day, the two accidentally find themselves in the middle of a political rally. Mehdi is brutalized in front of Malik by two cops who accuse him of propaganda against the government. Later that night, the police burst into the funfair and arrested Mehdi. Shocked, Malik begins searching for his father with the help of the other showmen, finding answers in the paintings his father left behind.

My Dad is not Dead

2023

SAGA, l'histoire des hommes qui ne reviennent jamais poster
NR

1964, after the death of his father, for which he feels guilty, Lahcen decides to leave his native village in the Moroccan Atlas to start over a new life in Tangier. He works as a nurse with his friend Omar. Nothing seemed to look awkward until Omar tries to involve Lahcen into a suspicious case of organ trafficking. Tired of the psychological influence of Omar, Lahcen, seeking redemption, ends up heading back to his village where he could meet back his inner peace. 40 years later, Lahcen is arrested for an alleged trafficking in Tangier. To clear his father Ali, undertakes a journey through the past of his father. During his quest, he will cross the path of Said, the brother he never thought he had.

SAGA, l'histoire des hommes qui ne reviennent jamais

2014

Masood Saida and Saadan poster
8.0

Masood, freshly released from prison, is tasked with finding Saida, a cabaret dancer who has stolen a mafia's safe key, leading to chaos when a monkey named Saadan swallows the key, triggering a series of unexpected adventures.

Masood Saida and Saadan

2019

Casa guira poster
NR

Ismaïl, a former gold robber, is released from prison after serving a twelve-year sentence. Upon his liberation, he reunites with his childhood friend, Nassim, who has just returned from Turkey. Together, the two friends embark on a frantic race to find a missing chest filled with gold.

Casa guira

2025

L'Batal poster
NR

Ali, an amateur actor, gets caught up in a bizarre situation after he posts a compromising selfie on social media. The photo captures Sam with his mistress, Ibtissam. To protect Sam, Ali is asked to pose as her lover. Tricked into believing he is auditioning for a film, Ali agrees to take on the “role.” But Ibtissam is kidnapped by a gang, plunging Ali and his friends into a dangerous adventure.

L'Batal

2024

Jackpot poster
NR

The 90-minute film follows the story of three young men from Casablanca who seek quick wealth by fabricating fake scandals on social media to manipulate the stock market. Guided by a social media influencer and one of the internet's most notorious scammers, their plan initially brings success, until it all unravels when the cybercrime unit begins to close in on them.

Jackpot

2025

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