A Shadow Among Others

The film is considered one of the first Moroccan cinematic tapes that tried to convey Moroccan reality with its traditions and customs to the cinema screen in a bold way, especially the issue of sex in Moroccan society, an issue that cinematographic works have always avoided before.

A portrait of a large Maghrebian city at the end of the century, Casablanca, through the intersecting paths of three characters: a bookseller who receives unexpected correspondence that forces him to question himself; a young teacher whose application for a passport triggers an absurd official investigation; and finally, a student who, due to a misunderstanding with his fundamentalist teacher, becomes the object of a manipulation with tragic consequences.

A companion film to Miraculous Accident, Forgotten Solidarities returns to Nadir, Edyta, and Jarek from another angle: in 2025, Nadir, a Moroccan former exchange student at Łódź Film School, comes back to Poland to make a film from a buried past shadowed by 1968, where cinema, evidence, and intimacy blur into power, manipulation, and accusation.

Directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.

Moroccan student Nadir arrives at Łódź Film School in 1968, amidst Eastern anti-imperialist support. He meets Jewish teacher Edyta, who is forced to leave Poland after the Six-Day War. In 2024 he finds her letter, reviving memories of a fractured love.

This film revolves around the path of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Allabi in the seventies of the last century, but the mouthpiece of Allabi's wife, Jocelyn, who was bully to defend her husband's right to embrace freedom. She was embodied by prisoners of conscience's mothers, wives, sisters and mates who "hold half the sky," according to Chinese wisdom.

Amal and her husband Kamal split up in a great confusion and misunderstanding. Each one believes he's been abandoned by the other. Several years later, Amal undertakes a search for her husband, along with her brother-in-law, Redouane.

Said is a young man in his thirties. He lives in Casablanca with his stepmother Halima. Halima, separated from the young man's father, is opposed to Said's relationship with his colleague Hayat. Unbeknownst to his stepmother, Said decides to join Hayat. However, tired of his hesitations, she ends up abandoning him for another man.

This is the first documentary film dedicated to Moroccan cinema; Between Desire and Uncertainty hands the microphone over to the filmmakers and film critics. Besides offering a brief historical approach, this documentary strives to identify the different movements that push Moroccan cinema. Likewise, it also makes very clear the dangers that threaten cinema’s evolution.