ON MY FATHER'S GRAVE
Genre
Drama
Running time
24 minutes
Year
2022
Language
French and Arabic
Subtitle
English and French
Country
Morocco and France
Director
Jawahine Zentar
Bio
Producer
Fabrice Préel-Cleach, Emmanuelle Latourrette
Cast
Yasmine Kéfil, Sonia Bendhaou, Adam Ouadah, Maya Racha, Badreddine Ghattas, Nezha Tebbai
Scriptwriter
Jawahine Zentar
Maine and her family are accompanying her father’s coffin to the small Moroccan village where he is to be buried. Tomorrow, the men will take the body to the cemetery while the women, in accordance with tradition, wait at home. That is not something Maine can accept, however. She is determined to go with her father to his final resting place.
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