The Healer

Name: The Healer
Genre: Drama
Released: 2018
Duration: 110 min

Director: Mohamed Zineddine

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Highlights

The film describes the cultural transformation in the Moroccan society because of poverty.
The film won four awards including Best Actress at the Malmo Arab Film Festival and the Jury Award at the Tangier National Film Festival.
The film is Morocco's most award-winning film of 2019

2018/ Morocco - Italy - Qatar 110 min/ Drama

Original Title

Mbarka (La Guérisseuse)

SYNOPSIS

On the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosphates, a 16-year old teenager, Abdou, is anxious to regain the gift of human dignity through learning how to read and write. His adoptive mother Mbarka, the neighborhood’s healer, protects her privileged status with ways that the laws of obscurantism allow her. Ch’Aayba, a 30-year old guy, uncontrollable and ferociously cynical, is an eccentric pickpocket. Suffering from a skin disease, Abdou convinces him to come see Mbarka in order to get treatment for it.

CAST

Ahmed Moustafid
Fatima Atif
Mehdi Laarroubi
Hanane Elkabani

CREW

Screenwriter: Olivier Bombarda
Mohamed Zineddaine
DOP: Luca Coassin
Editor: Devin Eric

Production Company(ies)

Ouarzazate Films

Producer(s)

Rachida Saadi

Festival International du Film de Marrakech, Morocco

Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF), Egypt

Malmo Arab Film Festival, Sweden

Arab Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

Karama Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF), Jordan

Mostra de València - Cinema del Mediterrani, Spain

Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga (FCAK), Morocco

Tangier National Film Festival, Morocco

Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco

Arab Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland

Cinémas du Sud Festival, France

Festival Maghrébin du Film OUJDA, Morocco

Best Actress at the Malmo Arab Film Festival, Sweden

Best Female Performance, Best Male Performance, and Jury Award at the Tangier National Film Festival, Morocco

Grand Prix at the Festival Maghrébin du Film OUJDA, Morocco