HOUNDS
Genre
Thriller
Running time
94 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Arabic
Country
Morocco, France, Belgium and Qatar
Director
Kamal Lazraq
Bio
Producer
Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
Cast
Ayoub Elaid, Abdelatif Masstouri, Abdellah Lebkiri, Lahcen Zaimouzen, Salah Bensalah, Mohammed Kharbouchi
Scriptwriter
Kamal Lazraq
How to get rid of an inconvenient dead body? Father and son Hassan (Abdellatif Masstouri) and Issam (Ayoub Elaid) are used to scraping a living by doing jobs for Casablanca gangs, but find themselves in deeper trouble than when a man they were ordered to kidnap dies in their car. Hassan, clinging to a shred of decency, insists on giving the victim a proper burial. That begins their wild goose chase through the city’s slums in search of a resting place beyond the warring gangsters’ territories, squabbling over what to do and how to do it; this is a tense, punchy film set in a violent milieu, but absurdly funny with it.
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