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Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.

Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room of the Casablanca's public hospital. There they meet Driss' brother, Houcine, with whom they have been in conflict for years. The doctor diagnoses a brain problem requiring immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful journey exhausting each one. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub's life?

As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an episodic narrative, with three related substories presented sequentially. The Nourys shoot the episodes in distinct cinematographic styles (and with distinct overtones) suited to each tale, recalling Humberto Solas's masterpiece Lucia (1969).

An old journalist, Omar, remembers the 70s and Salim a young 35-year-old journalist who had dared to investigate a corrupt senior state official. Omar knows it's a fight lost in advance but Salim refuses to let go. He resists because his duty as a journalist and his contempt for the untouchables who believe themselves above the law incite him to take all risks. But one day, the newspapers announce the death of Salim, cowardly murdered by a burglar. In short, a simple fact.

Saida, a young executive in a big company, meets Hamid, a 35-year-old computer scientist. They decide to get married, convinced both to have made the right choice. After a few years of happiness and stability, their marriage begins to rock.

Ali is a poor young man who works as a mail courier. He gets an opportunity to work for a wealthy family in Casablanca. Filled with hope and energy, Ali tries to start his new life — until things take a turn for the worse when he and his employer’s daughter are kidnapped by a gang.

During his 5 years of detention, Mehdi has questioned his life, and is considering the future. The future: Canada, where he wants to purify himself to be reborn again. Fate wanted him to meet Driss, a young marginal. Everything separates the 2 men. However, they have one thing in common: loneliness. A great friendship will be born between the 2 men, who will reveal their life, their anxieties and their dreams.

The film is about the suffering of a mother with one of her sons who asks her to sell the family home, one of the traditional old houses, to repay his debts, but she categorically refuses to bow to his request in favor of the "commandment" of her husband, who recommended before his death to keep the house.

Hamid is shared between his wife Souad, his mistress Leïla, and his mother-in-law Hajja. Zhor, the servant is the guardians mistress. Brahim is Hamids scapegoat, until the day when he catches him red-handed. Hamid is blackmailed...

Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.

Stolen Childhood is a Moroccan film by Hakim Noury.[1] It is one of Noury's most popular and influential films. The film is set in Casablanca and tells the story of the abuse of a young servant girl.

Directed by Hakim Noury.