The Fundación Tres Culturas collaborates in the events of the Francophonie Week with the screening of the film A Jamaâ (The mosque), by Moroccan director Daoud Aoulad-Syad, which will be screened in its original version with French subtitles.
The film participated in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2014, winning a special mention from the jury "for the simplicity of a story that hides the complex". This comedy stems from Aoulad-Syad's previous film, Fi Intidar Pasolini, which narrated the shooting of a film in a small village in southern Morocco. For the filming, sets were built on land leased by the villagers and a mosque was erected on the plot of Moha, a villager who also acted in the film. At the end of filming, the villagers tore down all the sets except the mosque, which had become a real place of prayer for everyone, which was a disaster for Moha, who grew the vegetables on which his family lived.
Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Marrakech, 1953. He studied at the La Fémis Film Workshop in Paris. He began a prestigious career as a photographer and from 1989 onwards made short films and documentaries. He made his debut as a feature film director with Adieu, forain (1998), which won awards in Casablanca and Montpellier. His next titles were Le cheval de vent (2001), screened at San Sebastian 2003, Tarfaya (2003), in competition in the Official Selection at San Sebastian 2004, and En attendant Pasolini (2007), winner of the Best Arab Film Award at the Cairo Film Festival.
The screening will start at 20:00. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Francophonie Week is organised by the Institut Français in collaboration with the Fundación Tres Culturas, the French and Moroccan consulates, the University of Seville and the Cimme Foundation.
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