Zanka Contact on display at the Venice Film Festival - Production / Funding - France/Belgium/Morocco
The feature debut from Ismaël El Iraki, produced by Barney Productions, Velvet Films and Mont Fleuri Production, will have its world premiere on the Lido, in the Orizzonti programme. A 2008 graduate from the directing department of La Fémis, and noticed with his short film H’rash (in national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2009), Ismaël El Iraki will benefit from great visibility for his feature length debut as his film Zanka Contact has been selected in the Orizzonti section of the 77th Venice Film Festival (2-12 September). Presented as a romantic rock road movie somewhere between the thriller and the musical, the film stars Khansa Batma, Ahmed Hammoud, Saïd Bey, Abderrahmane Oubihem, Mourad Zaoui and Fatima Attif. Written by Ismaël El Iraki, the script (which was one of the finalists for the Prix du Scénario) begins in a hellish Casablanca. A car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been...
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