'A Mile with My Shoes' won the audience admiration in the Carthage Festival Film

The Moroccan film ‘A Mile with My Shoes’ gained the admiration of the seventh art lovers when it was screened in the Carthage Festival Film. The film competed for the first work award which was clear from the interaction and praise from the attendees.

The film director, Said Khallaf, which his film is nominated to represent Morocco on the Oscar of 2017 expressed his happiness for screening his first film in such a great festival and with the audience admiration.

Khallaf noted the artistic components of the film which is not limited to the dramatic story, but it is extended to the plot through the overlapping of time, the cinematic narration, the professional photography, and the professional actors are all factors that contributed to this great movie.

The film ‘A Mile with My Shoe’ which Amine Ennaji and Noufissa Benchahida played its principle roles talk about street children, family disintegration, and violence against women through the story of a young man, said, who spent most of his childhood in one of the poorest streets in Casablanca fighting to live a decent life away from criminal world in a community that have no mercy for his kind of people.

Said Khalaf film won many awards locally or internationally, and it is nominated to represent Morocco for a foreign film Oscar. 

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'A Thousand Months' by Faouzi Bensaidi

'A Thousand Months' is produced by Faouzi Bensaidi. The movie is about ,Mehdi, a seven years old child whom his father is in prison, he lives with his mother in his grandfather’s house. Mehdi’s father is a teacher who is imprisoned under the charge of provoking students into protests, but Mehdi is told by his mother that his father is working in France. The grandfather is doing his best to keep the basic needs of the family. In that, he suffers too much living on the fact that his land being confiscated by the same country he fought for in the war of liberation. In school, Mehdi is privileged by carrying the teacher’s chair from and to his home.

Beyond the story of Mehdi who represent the new generation that live under the socio-political pressure there is another hidden story in parallel with the main story that tell us much more about the state policy in dealing people. Corruption of school and  corruption of authority are another imperatives of the second story. Bensaidi built his movie from different parts to organize a consistent picture of the social institutions in their interaction.

Through the movie we see the reflection of missed up country that restricts people's freedom of speech and protest and a child who pears up the harshness of carrying a chair for his teacher from home to school every day. The picture here is symbolic, and we only could understand it if we know the symbolism of the chair in the movie. The chair is a symbol of power and authority, yet students as a future generation can trick the teacher who is a symbol of authority with a nail up in the chair. This act connotes a  revolutionary meaning that even young generation may get outrageous when they are excessively tormented.

Mehdi uses the chair to contemplate and enjoy the views from a high places. He somehow experiences the grand feeling by sharing the chair with his teacher which makes the sitting on it quite different.

‘A thousand Months’ is screened in 1997 during Ramadan month in the Atlas mountains. 

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