The Mother of All Lies
Southeast Asian Premiere
Asmae EL MOUDIR Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar 2023 96 min NC16 (Some Coarse Language)
Using figurines in a handmade set that recreates her neighbourhood, a Moroccan director explores her family’s and country’s secrets.
As Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir helps her parents vacate her childhood home in Casablanca, she realises the depth and complexity of her family’s secrets. Why is there only one photograph of her as a young girl—except it isn’t even her in the picture?
Together with her parents, she builds a diorama of their old neighbourhood and gathers their relatives, using the model and figurines to provoke suppressed memories. As painful recollections rise to the surface through reenactment, Asmae starts to make sense of not only the reasons for her grandmother’s combative attitude, but also her country’s attempts to bury its violent past.
5 Dec, Tue 9:00PM / 96 min
Oldham Theatre
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The Mother of All Lies
Kadib Abyad
Asmae EL MOUDIR
Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
2023
Arabic
English
96 min
NC16 (Some Coarse Language)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Asmae EL MOUDIR
Asmae EL MOUDIR is a Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer who has made award-winning documentaries for broadcast. Her feature debut, The Postcard (2020), premiered at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The Mother of All Lies won Cannes’ Golden Eye for best documentary and Best Director in Un Certain Regard.
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