Mother of All Lies

• Date: 16 May
• label.tijd 19:00
• Location: Filmhuis Den Haag

Asmae El Moudir

Morocco , 2023

97 min

Arabic spoken

A little lie can't hurt, but in director Asmae El Moudir's home, more lies were told than truths. In the lively Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up, her domineering grandmother determined everything in the house: the past was hushed up and photographs did not hang. In an attempt to unravel this unsaid history, she rebuilds her neighborhood as a maquette. Together with family and neighbors, she unorthodoxly reconstructs her painful, personal, but also the shared history of Casablanca that has long remained hidden. Bold and creative, “The Mother of All Lies” won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival and was the Moroccan Oscar entry.

Special screening on May 16

On May 16, Mohamed Bouzia will be present after the film to interpret the film and answer questions from the audience.

Mohamed Bouzia (1976) was born in Morocco. In the Netherlands he studied International Management the Hogeschool Haarlem. He then studied media studies, management and marketing in Angers, France. Back in the Netherlands, Bouzia worked at various radio stations. For example, he was editor/reporter at the NPS, programmer at Colourful Radio, editor at Radio Haarlem 105. For NIO he was (final) editor and coordinator for the radio programs on Radio 5.At NTR and MO he was editorial coordinator for the multicultural program Dichtbij Nederland until 2016.

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