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Sofia Alaoui, 2023, 91 min.
In French, Arabic and Tamazight with English subtitles.
Screening followed by a discussion with Chaima Benhsaina, Jihad Azahrai, and Madeleine Dobie
Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in 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.
Watch the trailer here.
"If you want sleight-of-hand cinematic atmosphere, a big movie made on a small budget, and a sense of the planet tipping on its axis toward destruction and rebirth, here's your vision of the end times." - Ty Burr on Substack
"Animalia is a quiet, thoughtful film with grand things on its mind that it tackles with impressive confidence, to great success." - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
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