Marrakech Short Film Festival à l’IMA

Three short-film programmes bring perspectives from the Maghreb, the Middle East and the Gulf into dialogue. The Institut du monde arabe hosts a selection from the Marrakech Short Film Festival, with animation, documentary and fiction exploring family ties, leaving home and the struggle for freedom.

In Shadows, Rand Beiruty uses animation to trace the memories of a young mother who fled Iraq. Firas Khoury’s Maradona’s Legs explores questions of belonging through the eyes of Palestinian children. The second programme includes My Brother, My Brother, an animated story about twin brothers by Abdelrahman and Saad Dnewar. The final programme features Sonia Terrab’s Gardens of Paradise: in Casablanca, a mother comes up against the administrative rules governing her son’s transfer to another school.

The variety of filmmaking approaches matters as much as the range of places represented. The films move between intimate memories and social constraints, each retaining its own perspective and way of telling a story.

Practical information
- Three separate programmes: Friday at 8 pm, Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday at 4 pm.
- Admission is free; a separate reservation is required for each screening.
- Auditorium, level -2.