A Spell Of Fever
Essay / 40' / 2015
With Ouidad Benzarah
Morocco, 2011. On a feverish night, a child perceives a ghost, a woman who has come from the sea, coming home after a long political exile. Silent tales, bodyless voices and visions mingle in the dark of the night and the fever. The child of the present and the political refugee are now one, travelling together to a strange building haunted by lost memories. History of decolonization and forgotten political fights appear and disappear. But a new struggle, the Arab Spring of Morocco, floods the past.
TIGER AWARD SHORT FILM - INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
CRITIC AWARD LAGO FILM FEST
DIALOG PRIZE EMAF
PRICE CAMIRA & SPECIAL PRICE OF THE JURY FESTIVAL FRONTEIRA
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY FESTIVAL SIGNES DE NUIT
VOD : Tënk, IFFR Unleashed
FESTIVALS : Locarno film festival, Rotterdam, Loop Festival (Barcelona), Shorts Mexico, Viennale, Forum Doc (Brasil), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Filmer à tout prix (Belgium), Alternativa (Barcelona), Berwick film and media art festival (United Kingdom), Filmadrid international film festival, Lima Independiente International film festival (Peru), VideoEx (Zurich), JeonJu International Film Festival (South Corea), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), European Film Festival (Szescin, Poland), Fronteira (Brasil), Lago Film Fest, EMAF, Signes de nuit Berlin, Is real - Festival di cinema del reale (Italie), FINCAR International Women Filmmakers Festival (Brasil), Cachoeira doc (Brasil), Semana - Festival de cinema (Brasil), «Ville africaines en mouvement», exposition CNAP in the fram of the Venice Biennale 2015, Les Écrans documentaires (Arcueil), Documentaire sur Grand écran (Lyon), Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire de Lussas, Festival Côté Court (Pantin), Image de ville (Marseille), Bandits Mage (Bourges), Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (Saint-Denis), Entrevues - Festival International du film de Belfort, Travelling (Rennes), Doc en mai - Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire (Bordeaux), Festival Libre du Moyen-Métrage.
