Deserts_ENG – Barney Production

DESERT

by Faouzi Bensaïdi

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Film

Title: Deserts

Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi

Duration: 125′

Genre: Fiction

Country: France, Germany, Belgium, Morocco

Production: Barney Production, NiKo Film, Entre Chien et Loup, Mont Fleuri Production

Release date: September 6th, 2023

Synopsis: Mehdi & Hamid work for a collection agency in Casablanca.
The two gawky associates visit remote villages of the great South of Morocco in order to get money out of indebted people.

Cast: Upcoming

Locations: Morocco (2020)

Director

Faouzi Bensaïdi

A theater director and actor, Faouzi Bensaïdi directed his first multi-awarded short film, The Cliff, in 1997. Then he co-wrote Far with André Téchiné. In 2000, he directed two short films: Le Mur, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight, and The Rain Line, awarded at the Venice Film Festival. His first feature, A Thousand Months, received two awards at Un Certain Regard. Then WWW – What a Wonderful World and Death for Sale have been awarded at the Berlinale. Deserts had its world premiere in 2023 at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.

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