ANIMALIA
Genre
Science Fiction
Running time
90 minutes
Year
2023
Language
French, Arabic and Berber
Subtitle
English
Country
France, Morocco and Qatar
Director
Sofia Alaoui
Bio
Producer
Margaux Lorier, Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral
Cast
Oumaïma Barid, Mehdi Dehbi, Fouad Oughaou
Scriptwriter
Sofia Alaoui
Happily and heavily pregnant Itto (the excellent Oumaïma Barid) is looking forward to a relaxing day as her husband Amine and forbiddingly wealthy in-laws leave for a business meeting. Then come the warning phenomena: phones go down, a mysterious fog descends and both animals and people start behaving strangely. As Morocco is thrown into a state of national emergency, Itto tries to reach Amine but is stranded midway in an eerily silent village, where the remaining inhabitants speak as if in a daze. It is a journey into an ethereal unknown that will call into question everything Itto believes the world and her own privileged way of life.
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