Within the framework of the 'Three Cultures with You' project, the Fundación Tres Culturas, in collaboration with the FCAT, is offering a film cycle that shows, through four titles, different visions of Morocco's recent past.
According to the Moroccan Film Centre (CCM), Moroccan cinema is booming, with some 15 feature films and 50 short films being produced annually. Year after year, progress is made in production circuits, audience attendance and the fight against piracy, as well as the development of film festivals, such as those in Marrakech, Khouribga, Tangiers and Salé (Women's Film Festival).
This cycle, designed to be enjoyed at home, offers an overview of films in which Morocco is the protagonist, including works by Spanish and Moroccan directors who portray different experiences, situations, themes and visions of the neighbouring country.
Tuesday 19 May
The bitch life of Juanita Narboni
Farida Benlyazid. Spain, 2005, 101 min.
Juanita, the daughter of an English father from Gibraltar and an Andalusian mother, does not accept the changes of international Tangier, the last vestige of colonialism, and is left alone in a lost paradise, surrounded by her sister Elena, a woman educated at the French Lycée who sought her freedom; Esther, the close Sephardic friend, who devotes her whole life to an impossible love story with a Moroccan, and Hamruch, the faithful Moroccan maid. In the background of these lives, a series of events: the Spanish Civil War with the entry of the Khalifa troops into Tangiers, the Second World War with the arrival of refugees from Europe. Juanita is left alone in her city which, after Moroccan independence in 1956, is returning to its Arab origins.
The film is available at this link from Tuesday at 20.00h until Friday at 20.00h.
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