20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023
20th edition
November 24 to December 2, 2023
Born in Casablanca in 1984, Kamal Lazraq graduated from the directing department of La Fémis in 2011 . The same year, his graduation short film Drari won the 2nd Cinéfondation Prize at the Festival de Cannes and the Grand Prix for Best Short Film at the Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival. He directed the short The Man with the Dog (Moul Lkelb, 2013), which won numerous awards at international festivals. Hounds, for which he is a 2021 laureate of the Gan Foundation for Cinema, is his first feature film and won the Jury’s Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Festival de Cannes in 2023.
In the suburbs of Casablanca, father and son Hassan and Issam live from day to day carrying out small trafficking jobs for the local mafia. One evening, they are tasked with kidnapping a man. Trapped in a long night, they have no idea what awaits them…
Director Kamal Lazraq
Producer Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
Screenwriter Kamal Lazraq
Cinematographer Amine Berrada
Editor Héloïse Pelloquet, Stéphane Myczkowski
Sound Thomas Van Pottelberge, Thibaud Rie, Hugo Fernandez, Philippe Charbonnel
Music P.R2B
Colour Colour
Supported by 
Production Company Barney Production, Mont Fleuri Production, Beluga Tree
International Sales Company Charades