ANIMALIA
(PARMI NOUS)
Year
2023
Runtime
90 mins
Language
French, Arabic, Berber
Canadian Premiere
Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the privileged Moroccan codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events push the country into a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant, and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.
Sofia Alaoui is a French Moroccan filmmaker, recently featured as one of Screen Daily’s Arab Stars of Tomorrow. Her debut feature is a unique, genre-bending sci-fi, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at Sundance earlier this year.
- Awards
- Winner, World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award
Creative Vision, Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival
- Director
- Sofia Alaoui
- Producer
- Margaux Lorier, Christophe Barral
- Screenwriter
- Sofia Alaoui
- Cinematographer
- Noé Bach
- Editor
- Héloïse Pelloquet
- Music
- Amine Bouhafa
- Cast
- Oumaïma Barid, Mehdi Dehbi, Fouad Oughaou