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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2001 · 99 min

A raw, heartbreaking look at street children trying to survive and honor a friend, filled with harsh reality and fleeting hope.

Directed by
Nabil Ayouch
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mounïm Kbab, Abdelhak Zhayra, Hicham Moussoune
Overview
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Nabil Ayouch
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mounïm Kbab, Abdelhak Zhayra, Hicham Moussoune
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • survival
  • friendship
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Nabil Ayouch
Written by
Nabil Ayouch, Nathalie Saugeon
Starring
Mounïm Kbab, Abdelhak Zhayra, Hicham Moussoune, Mustapha Hansali, Abdessamad Tourab, Saïd Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Majd
Music
Krishna Levy
Cinematography
Vincent Mathias, Renaat Lambeets
Runtime
99 min
Country
Belgium, France, Morocco, Tunisia, United States of America
Languages
French, Arabic

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