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ZIYARA

By Simone BITTON

LA PROD - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2020

A very personal road movie, a poetic stroll to meet the Muslim guardians of the Moroccan Jewish memory that tries to reconnect the thread of a complex and exceptional relationship between Jews and Muslims, between memory and current events.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- MOROCCO
- Duration
- 99 mn
- Director(s)
- Simone BITTON
- Producer(s)
- Lamia CHRAIBI (LA PROD)
- Synopsis
- "Ziyara" means visiting the saints, a popular practice common to Jews and Muslims in Morocco. Today the Jews are almost all gone, but their saints are still there. The wound of separation is still gaping, the echo of the Oriental wars silently hovers over the meeting, but the camera retained the link, collecting anecdotes, smiles, hospitality and blessings, carrying the film towards a new complicity between filmer and filmed.