Animalia
12A
Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the privileged codes of her husband’s Moroccan family. When supernatural events plunge the country into a state of emergency, Itto is separated from her husband and new in-laws. Alone, pregnant, and searching for a way back, she discovers her own emancipation.
This film was curated by Maona Art as part of their partnership with Cinema Africa!
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“This debut feature from co-writer/director Sofia Alaoui is a mystery – enigmatic and abstract – that falls somewhere between the life-changing contacts of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and the overnight social upheavals of Michel Franco’s New Order (2020).”
Little White Lies
“Animalia is more Terrence Malick than apocalyptic, with mystical transcendental suggestions of the interconnectedness of the universe. ... an intriguing, eccentric and distinctive debut.”
The Guardian
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