one hour in hell

Four sisters reveal their secrets and express their ambitions, and depict their tense relationship with a domineering and assertive mother, where the desire for freedom and the search for the “savior” man

Aicha works tirelessly selling whey to meet all the needs of her little daughter Malika. In the evening in the slum, several people are sick and some die. The others wake up the next day, wander around the slum and bite people. The epidemic spreads insidiously, the first undead are slow and clumsy. People avoid them. But there are more and more. While returning home with her daughter, Aïcha is attacked by a pack of zombies. She falls on a stone and remains inanimate. When Aïcha finally wakes up, Malika is no longer there. She begins to look for her daughter, who for her part is looking for her mother. Everyone does everything to avoid succumbing to the zombie attacks and finding their way out of the slum before it's too late...

A play director prepares to train a troupe on Jean Genet’s The Maids, however, tensions escalate after he starts taking antidepressants and battling his own demons ahead of the play’s scheduled performance in front of a producer and a cultural manager from the French embassy.

Three intertwined stories follow Félicité, a young Sub-Saharan migrant at the Morocco-Spain border near Melilla. After her friend Sandrine’s tragic death, Félicité vows to honour her by returning to Tangier to earn money for a Christian burial. The second story centers on Hamid, an unscrupulous recruiter exploiting migrant workers, whose deceit ultimately costs him his job. Finally, Kenza, a wealthy young mother, hires Félicité as a nanny against her husband’s wishes, leading to escalating marital conflict that leaves Félicité facing despair.

Hakim is an honest police officer deeply devoted to his daughter, finding great joy and happiness in her company. One day, his daughter is kidnapped. Hakim does everything in his power to find her, set her free, and bring her kidnappers to justice.

The protagonist is obsessed with the 1982 film Disco Dancer that his now deceased projectionist father showed him when he was a kid, a film that, his father said, contains the answers to all questions. Jimmy adopts the name and dress of its hero, his bedroom is an altar to Bollywood and disco, he lives in a state of arrested development that starts and stops with Disco Dancer. Of course, he is in love with Mouna, the dream girl who lives on the other side of the tracks, and whose bourgeois demeanor rubs up his pal, Houda, the wrong way. In order to get to her, the dazzled thirty-year old dreamer decides to shoot a remake of Dirty Dancer with a “borrowed” IPhone, in the slums. The destruction of the latter is imminent, under the harsh command of a cruel villain: Barkour.

The story chronicles the arduous journey of the rural girl Mariam who struggles in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous singer.