THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES

A little white lie can't hurt, but at director Asmae El Moudir's home, more lies were told than truths. In the lively Casablanca neighbourhood where she grew up, her domineering grandmother determined everything in the house: the past was hushed up and photographs did not hang there. In an attempt to unravel this unspoken history, she rebuilds her neighbourhood as a maquette. Together with family and neighbours, she unorthodoxly reconstructs her painful personal, but also the shared history of Casablanca that has long remained hidden. Bold and creative, The Mother of All Lies won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival and was the Moroccan Oscar entry.