Hassan Ben Badida

The Morphine Melody (2020)

After a car crash causes a young composer to lose his memory, his journey to regain it causes him to reevaluate his life and reflect on his past mistakes. However, his life soon gets complicated when he discovers that he has forgotten how to create music. ...

The Unknown Saint (2020)

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. ...

For the Cause (2019)

Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Women have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themselves trapped ...

Kilikis: The Town of Owls (2018)

The Town of Owls is an isolated residential community situated in the High Atlas Mountains. It is inhabited by families and guards of a secret political prison camp, which remained out of history for a long time until the early 1990s. Guards spend their lo ...

Jahilya (2018)

A tragicomic story of several characters caught in a historic event, the cancellation of the sheep Aid in 1996: Lofti the amnesic, Mounir who is rejected by the family of the woman he wans to marry, a child who can't understand this cancellation and a pers ...

Moul Ihsae (2017)

Lotfi, a census enumerator (counting demographics) or at least that's what he claims. Visits a neighborhood full of nutcases to interview and "count" them but everything quickly turns into a huge mess in a hilarious comedic frame full of twists about the M ...

Headbang Lullaby (2017)

On 11 June 1986, one day after Morocco wrote football world cup history by scoring a surprising victory over Portugal, government official Daoud is ordered to secure a bridge outside Casablanca that sits between two hostile communities over an empty highwa ...

Mimosas (2016)

A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues. ...

The Sea Is Behind (2014)

Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of "water bugs". Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically abandoned him ...

They Are The Dogs (2014)

Members of a television crew stumble across the story of an old man whose tragic tale dates back to 1981 during upheavals in Morocco, where he was arrested. Released 30 years later in 2011, he is now trying to come to terms with a new reality. The TV crew ...

Androman - De sang et de charbon (2012)

The End (2011)

Casablanca, July 1999. With longtime monarch Hassan II on his deathbed, there is an air of uncertainty weighing on Morocco - and especially on one marginalized young man, M'key. M'key finds a surrogate father figure in "pit bull" police commissioner Daoud ...

The People of the Clock (2007)

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

Bone of Iron (2006)

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. ...