The Mother of All Lies

• Morocco-Saudi Arabia-Qatar-Egypt.
• Direction: Asmae El Moudir.
• Production: Asmae El Moudir / Insightfilms.
• Coproduction: Marc Lotfy / Fig Leaf Studio, Al Jazeera Documentary, Red Sea Fund, an Initiative of the Red Sea International Film Festival.
• Screenplay: Asmae El Moudir.
• Photography: Hatem Nechi.
• Music: Nass El Ghiwane.
• Edition: Asmae El Moudir, Nadia Ben Rachid.

Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir takes moving house as the starting point in aiming to discover why she only has one photo of her early childhood. Through interviews with relatives, friends and neighbours, and a model of her neighbourhood through which clay figures stroll, El Moudir comes up against the marks left by the Casablanca riots of 1981, with hundreds of people killed or suffering reprisals, to explore the relationship between individual and collective memory, in a story starring a grandmother who will leave no viewers unmoved.