Nabil Ayouch

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Nabil Ayouch

Born April 1, 1969 · Paris, France (age 57)

Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Ayouch was born in 1969 in Paris, to a Moroccan father, Noureddine Ayouch and a French mother of Tunisian-Jewish descent. His brother is fellow director Hicham Ayouch. …

Known For

MektoubMektoub · 1997
Mektoub
★ 6.41997
MovieDrama
A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.
Calle MalagaCalle Malaga · 2025
Calle Malaga
★ 7.52025
MovieDrama
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.
The Blue CaftanThe Blue Caftan · 2023
The Blue Caftan
★ 7.22023
MovieDramaRomance
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
AdamAdam · 2019
Adam
★ 7.02019
MovieDrama
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.
All Three of UsAll Three of Us · 2015
All Three of Us
★ 7.52015
MovieDramaComedy
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
Everybody Loves ToudaEverybody Loves Touda · 2024
Everybody Loves Touda
★ 6.02024
MovieDramaMusic
Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.
Horses of GodHorses of God · 2013
Horses of God
★ 7.22013
MovieDrama
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
RazziaRazzia · 2017
Razzia
★ 6.82017
MovieDrama
Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

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