Saïd Hamich Benlarbi

Soundouss and Jaâfar, two gay youths from Casablanca, spend the summer in Cabo Negro in the north of Morocco, at a villa rented by Jaâfar’s American lover—who does not show up. The friends decide to stay in the villa and do the best they can.

January, 2007: I am back in Cairo. For work. You have changed your phone number, Omar. I must find you... I love you. Abdellah.

Twenty-year-old Nora takes her grandmother’s body to Algeria. Once there, her family discourage her from attending the funeral. Trapped between the four walls of the family home where she watches over her grandmother’s body, she is enraged. Silently.

Short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight Lineup.