Animalia

Horizons 2023 / Parmi nous / France, Morocco, Qatar 2023

Animalia

Synopsis

Pregnant Itto is living the good life: a loving relationship with her husband, a large family home, growing assets. Perhaps her relationship with her mother-in-law could be a little warmer. One day, when she excuses herself from a visit to relatives and a storm bears down on the isolated house, strange things start to happen, a combination of coup d’etat, environmental disaster, and judgment day. Animalia is a unique amalgamation of sci-fi disaster film, road movie, and spiritual journey which naturally mixes a critique of Moroccan society with questions as to the meaning of life.

Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková

About the film

90 min / Color, DCP

Director Sofia Alaoui / Screenplay Sofia Alaoui / Dir. of Photography Noé Bach / Music Amine Bouhafa / Editor Héloïse Pelloquet / Producer Margaux Lorier, Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral / Production Wrong films, Srab films / Coproduction Jiango Films, Dounia Productions / Cast Oumaïma Barid, Mehdi Dehbi, Fouad Oughaou / Sales Totem Films

About the director

Sofia Alaoui

Sofia Alaoui (1990, Casablanca, Morocco). Selected filmography: So What If the Goats Die (Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent, 2020, short), Quartier Lointains: Afrofuturistik (2021, short), Animalia (Parmi nous, 2023).

Contacts

Totem Films
5 rue de Charonne, 750 11, Paris
France
Phone: +33 630 847 575
E-mail: hello@totem-films.com

Guests

Sofia Alaoui
Film Director