Mohamed Majd

Shining (2017)

A short fiction about a man who fights against the seizure of his land by powerful developers. ...

The Golden Calf (2014)

1999: Sami, a 17-year-old French-Moroccan boy, is sent to live with his cousin Azadade in Morocco by his father, who wants to punish him for his bad deeds. Sami has only one idea in mind: to return to France before he comes of age and find his fiancée, Mà ...

Atlantic (2014)

A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice. ...

Prisoners of the Sun (2013)

A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse ...

Exit Marrakech (2013)

When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son wil ...

Homeland (2013)

Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect ...

Malak (2012)

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. ...

Androman - De sang et de charbon (2012)

Zero (2012)

Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him. ...

The Source (2011)

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe. ...

Rabat (2011)

Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected. ...

Hanna (2011)

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ru ...

Incendies (2010)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-roote ...

Sayidat Al Fajr (2009)

In a farm in the North, lives a saddened family : the grandfather, the mother locked in his memories, and two twin children. Their daughter Malika drowned in the village river, seven years ago, according to their belief, but in reality she left with a man. ...

The Shell Necklace (2008)

A father searches for his son after he disappeared from view, especially after doubts were raised about his possibility of joining extremist groups ...

The Scent of the Sea (2007)

Following an unpunished crime, a village of fishermen in northern Morocco is rising up around Simo against the local drug boss. ...

Waiting for Pasolini (2007)

Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami th ...

The Outskirts (2006)

Moroccan TV movie, its events revolve around the situation of a poor family living in one of the marginal neighbourhoods in the old city of Casablanca. ...

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values. ...

The Great Journey (2004)

Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his ...

Tenja (2004)

A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father. ...

A Thousand Months (2003)

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny. ...

A Minute of Sun Less (2003)

Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri. The victim's mistress Touria, just living for her fatally-ill younger brother Pipo, is considered the main suspect, so Kamel learns more and more about th ...

Under Another Sky (2003)

Samy, a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia his cousin, ...

Eclats du passé (2003)

A young lawyer, defending her father, the accused, whom she sees since she was a child. ...

Et après? (2002)

Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandest ...

Wind Horse (2002)

Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late second wife in a dream, he decides to visit her grave, in Azemmour. In the trip, he meets Driss who is going to Essaouira, looking for his mother whom he has n ...

Oueld Al Hamria (2002)

The film is a police story centered on the character of "Ould Hamriya", a young man who lived a difficult childhood and a social situation that led him to the professionalism of theft and robbery of luxury villas with two partners, which created confusion ...

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2001)

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 ...

Whispers (1999)

Caught between chasing his past and accepting his impending end, a man follows his childhood memories through the dark alleyways and desolate cemeteries of Boujad, Morocco. ...

Jeremiah (1998)

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jer ...

Solomon (1997)

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be. ...

Deadline (1988)

In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life sh ...

Afghanistan For What? (1984)

The movie deals with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the struggle of the Afghan people against them, through the story of an Afghan girl, a university professor and a religious scholar before the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan. ...

The Message (1976)

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad ...