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Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand’s award-winning LIFE SUITS ME WELL screens at Cinémathèque de Tanger
14 January 2023
Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand’s feature film LIFE SUITS ME WELL is currently screening at Cinémathèque de Tanger in Tangier, Morocco.
The film will be holding five screenings across four days this month — Wednesday, 11th at 17:15; Friday, 13th at 17:15 & 19:00; Saturday, 14th at 17:00; and Sunday, 15th at 17:00.
Cinémathèque de Tanger is a non-profit association that was established in 2006 to promote world cinema in Morocco and Moroccan cinema around the globe and to create a collection of documentaries, films, videos of artists, and experimental cinema to propose educational actions and to create a platform for dialogue with film professionals.
The film’s events take place in the mid-1990s. Fouad is the only employee at the local post office in a small town in northern Morocco. After he is diagnosed with a neurological disease, Fouad, his wife, and their children embark on a new chapter in their lives.
In this new era, their home will be filled with love, sorrow, and memories. While Fouad slowly succumbs to his disease, his family members rediscover themselves. As time goes by, wounds begin to surface, but the desire to live is inextinguishable.
LIFE SUITS ME WELL won three awards at the Casablanca Arab Film Festival — Best Script, Best Actor Award for Samir Guesmi, and the Special Jury Prize. Moreover, it scooped the Critics’ Week Award at the 33rd edition of the Carthage Film Festival.
It also won the Audience and Best Actress awards (Lubna Azabal) at the Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, the Audience Award at the Mediterranean Film Festival Split, as well as the First Work and the Cine Club awards at the Tangier National Film Festival.
Additionally, the film received several awards from the CineGouna Platform when it was still in the project phase, including the Grand Prize and Best Film in Post-Production.
The film held its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia and its Arab world premiere at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival. Moreover, it was featured at the Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden, Amman International Film Festival in Jordan, and Casablanca Arab Film Festival in Morocco.
LIFE SUITS ME WELL garnered positive critical reviews across Arab and international media outlets, with The National News writing that "LIFE SUITS ME WELL tells a touching story of family and Alzheimer's in Morocco."
The film was also praised on DMovies and described as "a touching, well-made drama about the bonds of family and staying strong in dreadful circumstances.”
Written and directed by Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand and produced by Kasbah Films (Karim Debbagh), the film stars Samir Guesmi, Lubna Azabal, Sayyid El-Alami, and Jalal Quarrioua. Meanwhile, MAD Solutions is managing the film’s distribution in the Arab world.
Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand is a Moroccan filmmaker who studied directing at the Ateliers Varan in Paris and graduated from the International Film and Television School in Paris.
After graduation, he took part in several Moroccan and foreign productions as an assistant director, including several short films. His short film Le Café des Pêcheurs (2007) was selected for numerous festivals, among them the Locarno Festival. LIFE SUITS ME WELL marks his first feature film.
The film will be holding five screenings across four days this month — Wednesday, 11th at 17:15; Friday, 13th at 17:15 & 19:00; Saturday, 14th at 17:00; and Sunday, 15th at 17:00.
Cinémathèque de Tanger is a non-profit association that was established in 2006 to promote world cinema in Morocco and Moroccan cinema around the globe and to create a collection of documentaries, films, videos of artists, and experimental cinema to propose educational actions and to create a platform for dialogue with film professionals.
The film’s events take place in the mid-1990s. Fouad is the only employee at the local post office in a small town in northern Morocco. After he is diagnosed with a neurological disease, Fouad, his wife, and their children embark on a new chapter in their lives.
In this new era, their home will be filled with love, sorrow, and memories. While Fouad slowly succumbs to his disease, his family members rediscover themselves. As time goes by, wounds begin to surface, but the desire to live is inextinguishable.
LIFE SUITS ME WELL won three awards at the Casablanca Arab Film Festival — Best Script, Best Actor Award for Samir Guesmi, and the Special Jury Prize. Moreover, it scooped the Critics’ Week Award at the 33rd edition of the Carthage Film Festival.
It also won the Audience and Best Actress awards (Lubna Azabal) at the Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, the Audience Award at the Mediterranean Film Festival Split, as well as the First Work and the Cine Club awards at the Tangier National Film Festival.
Additionally, the film received several awards from the CineGouna Platform when it was still in the project phase, including the Grand Prize and Best Film in Post-Production.
The film held its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia and its Arab world premiere at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival. Moreover, it was featured at the Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden, Amman International Film Festival in Jordan, and Casablanca Arab Film Festival in Morocco.
LIFE SUITS ME WELL garnered positive critical reviews across Arab and international media outlets, with The National News writing that "LIFE SUITS ME WELL tells a touching story of family and Alzheimer's in Morocco."
The film was also praised on DMovies and described as "a touching, well-made drama about the bonds of family and staying strong in dreadful circumstances.”
Written and directed by Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand and produced by Kasbah Films (Karim Debbagh), the film stars Samir Guesmi, Lubna Azabal, Sayyid El-Alami, and Jalal Quarrioua. Meanwhile, MAD Solutions is managing the film’s distribution in the Arab world.
Al-Hadi Ulad-Mohand is a Moroccan filmmaker who studied directing at the Ateliers Varan in Paris and graduated from the International Film and Television School in Paris.
After graduation, he took part in several Moroccan and foreign productions as an assistant director, including several short films. His short film Le Café des Pêcheurs (2007) was selected for numerous festivals, among them the Locarno Festival. LIFE SUITS ME WELL marks his first feature film.
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