Waiting for Pasolini

Directed by Daoud Aoulad-Syad

With Mohamed Majd, Mohamed Bastaoui and Mustapha Tahtah

Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.