CAST:
Saďd Taghmaouď,
Mounďm Kbab,
Mustapha Hansali,
Hicham Moussoune

SCRIPT:
Nabil Ayouch

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Vincent Mathias

Synopsis:
Ali, Kwika, Omar and Boubker are street children. In spite of their hard lives they are faithful friends. Ali dies as a victim of a street gang war. His friends decide to organize him the funeral that he deserves.

Festivals, awards: Toronto, Tokyo, Sundance, Berlin, Mar del Plata, Amiens (audience’s award), Stockholm (grand prix), Fespaco (grand prix)

Director’s statement:
The main hero of this film dies very soon and I did not want to characterize him physically but rather I wished to travel through his dreams, dreams that become his friends’ and all the children’s dreams. I was interested in the mystical dimension of his character. In the film his character develops from a child to a hero and from a hero to a symbol.

35 mm, color, 99min