ZANKA CONTACT

By Ismaël EL IRAKI

VELVET FILMS

Romance - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2020
Orizzonti ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, MOROCCO, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ismaël EL IRAKI
    • Synopsis
    • In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An unspoken trauma is their common history; rock ’n’roll their mutual saviour. Larsen’s snakeskin-covered guitar and Rajae’s liquid gold voice could be heaven, if only everything from his drug-induced visions to her music-buff pimp didn’t get in the way. The only hope for their blooming romance is to skip this ferocious town. Is there a way out of this crazy Moroccan underworld with its menagerie of sadistic cops, venomous snakes, metal concerts and shotgun-wielding modern-day Calamity Janes? For these punk Romeo and Juliet, maybe the answer lies in a song—the one they’ve been writing and dreaming together: Zanka Contact.