THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES

KADIB ABYAD كذب أبيض

By Asmae EL MOUDIR

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Documentary - Completed 2023

On a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2023
Un Certain Regard Best Director (Asmae El Moudir)
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
Horizons
Toronto - TIFF 2023
TIFF Docs
Busan IFF 2023
Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase
Red Sea IFF 2023
Festival Favorites
Sundance Film Festival 2024
Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • MOROCCO
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Asmae EL MOUDIR
    • Synopsis
    • Moroccan filmmaker Asmae el Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. When her family refuses to answer her questions about the past, she hits on another solution: on a handmade replica recreating the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up, El Moudir begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father and grandmother tell about their home and their country. Slowly, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life. The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes surreal nonfiction film, El Moudir begins to draw what's real to the surface.