Most Popular Ali Essafi Trailers
Total trailers found: 7
Waiting for Pasolini Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco.
Al bab al sabea Trailer (2017)
29 March 2017
La Septième Porte is the title of a 300-page film-history work dedicated to Moroccan cinema between 1907 and 1986.
Crossing the Seventh Gate Trailer (2017)
12 February 2017
Ali Essafi visited Bouanani three years before the latter’s death. The filmmaker, poet and novelist who also made drawings was leading a reclusive life in a remote village with his wife Naïma and many cats, living in the midst of huge piles of books and manuscripts.
Ouarzazate Movie Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Ouarzazate, Morocco, where Hollywood builds its glory on the backs of local workers. From Kundun and Asterix to Gladiator, passing through every historical epic and the thousand-and-one versions of the Bible, the city’s residents all work as extras in films they will likely never have the chance to watch.
Before the Dying of the Light Trailer (2020)
21 November 2020
An amazing journey back in time to Morocco in the seventies, through a colorful collage of jazz music, posters and magazine covers, archive footage and cartoons; from the perspective of the artists, many of whom ended up in jail or disappeared without a trace under the tyranny of King Hassan II.
Wanted Trailer (2011)
11 November 2011
Known as the “years of lead,” the 1970s in Morocco were marked by severe police crackdowns on dissent, with arbitrary arrests and detention and torture in secret prisons.
Sheikhates Blues Trailer (2004)
23 April 2004
The female Moroccan musicians known as sheikhates sing about the realities of life – about the land, nature, wars, mountains, crises and, of course, they sing about love.
