Ali Essafi Movies

  • 2001
    Ouarzazate Movie

    Ouarzazate Movie

    Ouarzazate Movie

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    Ever since David Lean came here to shoot parts of Lawrence of Arabia, the Moroccan desert of Ouarzazate has formed the backdrop to countless...

    Ouarzazate Movie
  • 2017
    Crossing the Seventh Gate

    Crossing the Seventh Gate

    Crossing the Seventh Gate

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    Ali Essafi visited Bouanani three years before the latter’s death. The filmmaker, poet and novelist who also made drawings was leading a...

    Crossing the Seventh Gate
  • 2007
    Waiting for Pasolini

    Waiting for Pasolini

    Waiting for Pasolini

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    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...

    Waiting for Pasolini
  • 2020
    Before the Dying of the Light

    Before the Dying of the Light

    Before the Dying of the Light

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    An amazing journey back in time to Morocco in the seventies, through a colorful collage of jazz music, posters and magazine covers, archive footage...

    Before the Dying of the Light
  • 2017
    Al bab al sabea

    Al bab al sabea

    Al bab al sabea

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    La Septième Porte is the title of a 300-page film-history work dedicated to Moroccan cinema between 1907 and 1986. It was written by Ahmed...

    Al bab al sabea
  • 2011
    Wanted

    Wanted

    Wanted

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    Known as the “years of lead,” the 1970s in Morocco were marked by severe police crackdowns on dissent, with arbitrary arrests and...

    Wanted
  • 2004
    Sheikhates Blues

    Sheikhates Blues

    Sheikhates Blues

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    The female Moroccan musicians known as sheikhates sing about the realities of life – about the land, nature, wars, mountains, crises and, of...

    Sheikhates Blues