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THE HEALER

LA GUERISSEUSE

By Mohamed ZINEDDAINE

JANAPROD - as FIN

Drama - Production 2017

tanger 2019

Best Director - Best actress - Best actor- Jury Prize

Khouribga 2019

Special mention of the jury

Arabe film festival Rotterdam 2019

Special mention of the jury

Cine plage de Harhoura 2019

Audience Award

Malmo arabe film Festival 2019

Best Actress

Festival de Valence 2019

Festival International de Naples 2019

Vesuvio d'Or

Oujda Maghrebian Film Festival 2020

Great prize

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- MOROCCO
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Mohamed ZINEDDAINE
- Writer(s)
- Mohamed ZINEDDAINE , Olivier BOMBARDA
- Cast
- Fatima ATTIF , Mehdi LAAROUBI , Ahmed MOUSTAFID
- Producer(s)
- Mohamed ZINEDDAINE (OUARZAZATE FILMS ), Rachida SAADI (JANAPROD )
- Synopsis
- On the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosphates, a 16-year old teen- ager,
  ABDOU, helpful and caring, simple and down to earth, incapable of harm, is anxious to regain the gift of human dignity through learning how to read and write. His adoptive mother MBARKA, a midwife, the neighborhood’s healer, protects her privileged status with ways that the laws of obscurantism allow her. CH’AAYBA, a thirty-year old guy, uncontrollable and ferociously cynical, is an eccentric pickpocket. Suffering from a skin disease, ABDOU convinces him to come see MBARKA in order to get treatment for it: that’s how the fate of these three will entangle, twirling on the carrousel of illusion