Mme Faiza & Dr Love

Mme Faiza & Dr Love

2026 · ★ 6.0 · Comedy

Faiza is everything you would expect from a Maghrebi mother living in the city: hardworking, devoted to her children, whom she is raising alone, attentive and helpful. But in the family's modest apartment, Faiza Alaoui has a "room of her own" where she works on another part of herself, one that is not afraid of transgression and reconnects with her youthful ambitions...

Directed by Anissa Daoud · Written by Anissa Daoud

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