Yassine el Idrissi

Yassine El Idrissi is trying to make a graduation film for his Masters degree. He wants to shoot an Iranian style movie in Morocco, because he loves Iranian cinema. He enlists the help of a novelist, Rachid, and a theatre teacher, Hussein. Together they take a journey to look for locations and a cast for his film, entitled 'National Day', about a village that doesn't have flags on an important national holiday.

13-year-old Said lives in the old medina of Rabat. As a side job, he collects empty beer bottles and sells them to a shop. He wants to use the money to buy food for a dog he is hiding.

A young Moroccan man is trying to find someone to take care of his belongings before leaving his village to immigrate to The Netherlands to join his father. Leaving the village wasn't easy, and took many years. When the moment has finally come, he experiences feelings of doubt, facing the memories of the past and the problems that lie ahead of him.

Ismail is an 8 year old child living with his sister in a mud house in the Atlas Mountains. After the death of their parents, the sister insists on him to continue his education. However, she loses control over his life, when he starts to live his life the way he wants to.

Halima lives on Morocco’s coast and makes a living by gathering and selling mussels. An unknown phone call brings her long-buried past back to light. After her husband passed away, Halima stayed alone in their old house in the mountains. The land is undergoing drastic changes, leaving her home, livelihood and sense of belonging all precarious. Grief, hardship and displacement follow one after another. Though fate knocks her down time and again, she never surrenders.A former photojournalist, the director captures this one-woman battle with stark cinematography. Free from grand outcries, the film lays bare her everyday resilience. Amid constant flux and loss, this woman stands firm, striving to carve out her own place in the world.