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Casablanca Beats 12 rating

Palme d'Or nominated film about a former rapper who takes a teaching job at a cultural centre in a working-class neighbourhood in Casablanca.

Drama 2021 102 mins

Director: Nabil Ayouch

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Overview

Former rapper Anas takes a teaching job at a cultural centre in a working-class neighbourhood in Casablanca. Struggling with religious obligations, repressive families and misogyny, his students gradually learn to express their feelings and frustrations through hip-hop. At times tipping into fantasy, with unexpected immersive musical scenes, such as a West-Side-Story-style street dance-off, the film is also heavily based on reality. In addition to the cast of non-professionals playing fictionalised versions of themselves and a liberally-improvised script, the arts centre itself is based on – and filmed in - one that director Nabil Ayouch co-founded in the deprived suburb of Sidi Moumen.

Casablanca Beats was selected as Morocco’s entry for the 2022 Academy Awards.

Director
Nabil Ayouch
Featuring
Anas BasboussiZineb BoujemaaMeriem NakkachIsmail AdouabNouhaila Arif
Genres
Drama
Certificate
12Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat, domestic abuse
Released
2021
Country
France
Language
Arabic with English subtitles