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Tuesday, 28 June 2016

‘Ali Zaoua The Prince of The Street’ By Nabil Ayouch





One of the characteristics that distinguishes Ayouch’s movies is realism. In all his movies, Nabil does not seek to fanaticize reality, rather his topics stems from the suffering and problems that Moroccan society undergo.

In this film ‘Ali Zaoua’, Ayouch dives deep in street children’s life and dreams. This film is more a documentary than a film in which it projects the life of street children who represent themselves in the movie. Kwita (Mounim Kbab), Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussoune), and Ali (Abdlhak Zhayra) are street children that Ayouch gives them a chance to depict their miserable life and represent all street children in Morocco.

The film’s story is about the four boys who decided to leave the gangster they were living with and start their own life, but the chief’s gang does not allow that. Then after a quarrel, Ali is hit by a stone and dies. His friends, Kwita, Omar, and Boubker, decide to give him a decent funeral like a real prince. Before Ali dies, he tells Kwita that he is going to sail to his island where there are two suns. Kwita becomes also obsessed with the idea and tries to materialize his dead friend’s dream. After that, with the help of a sailor, Hamid, whom Ali was working with, they build a small boat for Ali that will take his body to the island he dreams of. At the end, they bring Ali’s mother to the funeral and sail in Hamid’s boat singing a wonderful song that speaks their need for passion and empathy.

‘Ali Zaoua’ released in 2000, and it won several awards. It was even nominated for Best Foreign film Oscar.

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