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Die Schilderung einer Familie, die wegen der Zukunft eines kleinen muslimischen Jungen auseinandergerissen wird.

Nour a 27-year-old emigrates illegally to Marseille and lives off petty crime with friends leading marginal lives, and partying hard.

In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.

A father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.

Nika, a woman in her early twenties, leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a young soldier based in a military camp in Corsica. While there, she meets Céline, the wife of Commander Maxime.

Abdelkader is a watchman and Malika is a house maid. They were just married and are madly in love. Despite money problems, they dream of moving in and starting their love life together. One day Abdelkader is going to live an incident of great violence, a humiliating experience that will ruin their destiny.

Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women, with the police on their tail, embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.

Zwei Kleinkriminelle, Mehdi und Hamid, fahren in ihren zerknitterten Anzügen und Krawatten mit ihrem Auto durch Südmarokko.

More than ten years after giving up on poetry, Arthur Rimbaud, now a merchant in Africa, is considering coming back to France. He just needs one last score, trading thousands of rifles to King Menelik. But nothing goes as planned.

In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An unspoken trauma is their common history; rock n' roll their mutual saviour. Larsen's snakeskin-covered guitar and Rajae's liquid gold voice could be heaven, if only everything from his drug-induced visions to her music-buff pimp didn't get in the way. The only hope for their blooming romance is to skip this ferocious town. Is there a way out of this crazy Moroccan underworld with its menagerie of sadistic cops, venomous snakes, metal concerts and shotgun-wielding modern-day Calamity Janes? For these punk Romeo and Juliet, maybe the answer lies in a song - the one they've been writing and dreaming together : Zanka Contact

Hasna leaves her native Morocco to work as a seasonal laborer picking strawberries in Huelva, hoping to return and provide a better life for her family thanks to the salary promised by the greenhouse owners. But her dream clashes with a harsh reality: abuse, harassment, and inhumane living conditions. At the risk of losing everything, Hasna and her companions decide to report their situation and begin a fight against their exploiters with the help of Pilar, a Spanish lawyer.

Morocco, 2004. That summer, 11-year-old Adil spends his days playing with his gang of friends and waiting for the last Olympic Games of his idol, the runner Hicham El Guerrouj. The arrival of his father and his big brother, who came from France for a few days, will mark him forever.

On the Moroccan coast, a man's yellow labrador is stolen while he swims. Distraught, he goes to extreme lengths to retrieve him, aided and hindered by numerous strangers in the city, all with their own agendas.

"Bab Sebta" (or Ceuta's Gate) is a series of reconstructions of diverse situations observed in Sebta/Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the north of Morocco. The border of Bab Sebta is the scene of a traffic of manufactured goods, sold at discounted prices. Thousands of people cross this border every day, carrying enormous packages of goods. In the film, we watch this "ballet" of individuals around the border, and witness the dynamics of movement, the plastic and visual appearance of the passage, the characteristic situations of waiting and the redundancy of gestures.

Maïne and her family accompany her father's coffin back to Morocco. Tradition dictates that the men will bury him the next day, while the women stay at home and pray. But the singleminded teenager wants to do things differently.

Casablanca's beach, Morocco. Teenager's desire for each other is growing discreetly. Adults and children oversee. A fight creates a diversion.

Casablanca. Samir, a young Moroccan, lives on odd jobs. One day, while cleaning a storage shed for a drug dealer, he comes across an injured man. Kai is an illegal immigrant waiting for transit. Hostile at first, Samir ends up helping Kai. A troubling relationship begins...

It's Aïd Kebirin Casablanca. Imad, who sells hacked DVDs in the streets doesn't manage to collect the money to buy the sacrificial sheep. The perfect excuse to take advantage over his studious little brother, forcing him to become a parking attendant. While he thinks he is penalizing Fayçal, Imad ignores he's giving him the opportunity to take his revenge.

On the eve of the Festival of the Sacrifice, Kamal is kicked out of his uncle's place, where he used to live, in Marrakech's suburb. He seeks refuge at his father's, an old misfit..

Three Turkish workers traverse Iraq in a jeep heading to an American military base construction only to find themselves confronting adolescent Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint.

Rachid is delighted with his sycophantic free 'apprentice' autochthonous convert Brahim Le Soumis, who urgently needs some proof of employment for his parole file. Ismail's 'one off' burial, suddenly becomes a 'specialty of the firm' when Nadia smells a lucrative future as it's asked for by the family of just-deceased local football legend El Fasi. As they insist on the traditional short period, and Rachid finally baked the tiles as Nadia kept nagging while the first batch hardens against cemetery rules, there's no lore Morocooan soil. Smile and JB greedily accept to fetch some from relatives in Tanger. JB's unemployed graduate girl Alizee finally strikes a rent deal with Smile, who outsmarts the greedy landlord. The cousin supposed to be waiting with a full truck is horribly late, so Smile climbs the walls while hospitable aunt Aïsha spoils JB. They make it last minute, despite a major delay after the bribing of corrupt customs backfired due to JB's big mouth, resorting to a literally dirty trick. Nadia deals with the family's odd request for a DJ, once her ex, who wants 'in kind' on top of cash, but his present girl unwittingly crosses those plans. Ftaher and son now lie about their whereabouts, but he finally managed to lay flower on mother's grave.

During a routine mission to meet the local population, members of Lieutenant Anaïs Collet's section are ambushed. When Julien Ravalet, a sharpshooter and hothead, opposes Martial Mendy, the group leader, Martial prefers to hide behind protocol.

As the debate over the legitimacy of Ravalet's shooting during the ambush grows, the family of the young Malian killed comes to recover the body. Elise Schiffman, the journalist, is getting more and more interested in what may have happened during the ambush. At the funeral of the young Malian, her behavior and the presence of the French soldiers sparks things off.

Anaïs hears gunshots coming from a Peul village near the French military stronghold. Despite orders from higher-ups, she goes to the village and uncovers evidence of a brutal massacre.