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- This romantic-kitsch story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet's grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man beginning a sociology study of gay islamic homosexualities and discovering gay love with a young French steward.
- The film revolves around the relationship of two lovers from Larache in the 80s. It ponders upon the hurdles that stand in their way in a society that is conservative and unforgiving of non-marital relationships.
- Hayat is released after serving a long prison sentence and, wishing to find her son, returns to her hometown in northern Morocco. There, she meets Amal, who cares for her disabled younger sister Houda. The courage of these three women drives them forward in the face of marginalisation.
- Amina Filali is a 16-year old Moroccan girl who committed suicide after being forced to marry her alleged rapist. Her tragic death dominated Moroccan and international media in March 2012. Amina had accused a young man in her village of rape, but because authorities failed to properly investigate her accusations, she was married to her rapist following a citation from article 475 of the Moroccan penal code. This article dismisses a rapist of his charges as long as he marries his victim. A year after her marriage, Amina swallowed rat poison, walked into the village market, and died. Through this horrifying affair, the film explores the legal, political, religious and social issues that plague Moroccan women - chipping away at the facade of equality that disguises a deep-seated patriarchal system. Underscoring the pervasiveness of this problem, the team filming 475 also discovers that Filali's rape and marriage was only one of four similar incidents that had happened in her small village's recent memory. They also discover that the account of Filali's experience was not as simple as it had been portrayed. While the film highlights the difficulty in determining guilt, it also adeptly showcases the endemic nature of the problem of sexual violence in Morocco.
- Six months and a Day tells an exceptional love story that brought together Ibrahim, a talented artist with autism, and Houda, who will discover that she has cancer. Houda's life took another turn since she learned of her illness. She did not care about her condition as much as all her concern became to find solutions and alternatives for her husband to live in a good condition after her death. In the search for these alternatives, fate will lead them to Ziad, 13 years old, who suffered greatly from his father's addiction to alcohol after the death of his mother.
- Two Muslims, members of rival families, fall in love with the beautiful half-cast Aixa at the same time.
- The film is set in the city of Larache around several Moroccan characters whose lives are intertwined. The one who links them all together is the excellent student Mo'ez who is considered one of the best-born and smartest high school students where both Abdel-Hak and Nada teach. However, Mo'ez's harsh and difficult living and familial conditions affect his views on the point of studying as he has unemployed brother who had already obtained the high school diplomas that he aspires to obtain. Consequently, his frequent absenteeism in the second semester of the school season prompted his Arabic teacher, his fiance and friend to search for reasons for his absence. Nonetheless, they would be surprised to know that the Mo'ez now is planning to emigrate to Europe so that he does not meet the same fate as his heroic, older brother. As a result, his teacher takes the initiative to save what can be saved of this boy's life before it is too late.
- In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.
- The main events of the film take place in the Old Medina of Larache. It is about a mother who emigrates to France with her son Idriss due to domestic issues with her husband, Mustapha, who is a photographer who chose to remain in Larache. After 30 years on their separation, the Son, while in his Parisian flat, spots a photograph that brings him together with his father in his birth-town, Larache. So, he decides to return to this city, to experience its social warmth and relive some of his childhood memories of his father and his Old Medina neighbors. His mother often told him about them, but upon his arrival he would be surprised by the changes that had occurred to the Medina where his father resided. Thus, he finds himself in a perplexing situation, stuck between staying in Larache or going back to Paris. This film is a romanticization of a person's complex relationship with place and the power of a memory that could be ignited with simple object, a photograph for example.