Mother of all lies

Roughcut｜2022｜Morocco

• Directed by: Asmae El Moudir

• Production: Insightfilms

• Thematics: Familial memory, Strike and Social issues, Repression, Morocco

• Festivals, Prizes: Prix de La mise en scene/ Cannes , Un certain regard 2023 , L’oeil d’or Cannes 2023

There are very strong feelings inside me that raise childhood memories in my Casablanca family house. If I focus even more, I can see very clearly a picture of my childhood. The only one. The picture that my mother showed me to reassure me. But I am convinced that it is not me on this picture and that my mother lied to me. This makes me wonder about the relationship of each of us with images. Mine, my mother's, my grandmother's, but especially that of my country, which sometimes prefers to erase all images of its own past, like the Bread Riots’ ones.