Director Nabil Ayouch spoke of the real story behind Morocco’s Oscar submission Casablanca Beats, a musical drama about a teacher at a cultural center in the Moroccan city. “It is personal and auto…
“It is personal and autobiographical in a way,” he said during’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event. “I grew up in a suburb of Paris that was quite violent and very close to the one that we see in the film in Casablanca. And when I was young, I knew how to love myself and connect with myself through arts and culture: specifically a cultural center.
in that very establishment. “Every week, more than 1,000 young girls and boys have been coming to write their own stories, to change the world through arts and culture, and that’s what inspired me to do this movie.”“I decided one day that I would like to sit with them and hear the backgrounds, their backstories: where do they come from? Where do they live? And they opened their hearts,” he said. “I can tell you that this afternoon was a very strong moment for me in my life.
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