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Zanka Contact
''Zanka Contact'' is a 2020 Moroccan film directed by Ismael El Iraki. Described as a '' Wild at Heart''-type love story with debts to Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone, the film was inspired by El Iraki's emotional journey and recovery after he found himself in the midst of the horrors of the 2015 Bataclan attacks in Paris. Following a screening at the 77th Venice International Film Festival where the film's lead actress, Moroccan singer Khansa Batma, won the Venice Orizzonti Award for Best Actress, the film went on to be selected for over thirty international festivals and won several awards through its festival run 2020 to 2022. Among them, ''Zanka Contact'' was awarded the Golden Tutankhamun Award for best feature film at the Luxor African Film Festival. Synopsis Has-been rockstar Larsen Snake returns to his native Casablanca where he meets Rajae, a street girl with a golden voice. The two madly fall in love, but their passion is quickly overtaken by their past, and the wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismael El Iraki
Ismael El Maoula El Iraki (born 1983 in Morocco) is a French-Moroccan filmmaker. He is a survivor of the November 2015 attacks on the Bataclan in Paris, which inspired his first feature film, '' Zanka Contact''. Biography El Iraki was born in Morocco in 1983. He moved to France in 2001, where he studied philosophy and film theory before entering the directing section of La Fémis in 2004. His short film Carcasse, a sci-fi movie about construction workers in the Sahara, won the Short Film Corner Award in Cannes. His second short film Harash, a dark comedy thriller set in Casablanca, won the Jury Award and the Attention Talent Directing Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. They were both edited on DVD by the FNAC french cultural retail cha El Iraki is a survivor of the November 2015 Paris attacks, November 2015 Paris attack at the Bataclan. His experience of PTSD was channeled into his feature film Zanka Contact (a.k.a Burning Casablanca ). Zanka Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |