''Majid'' is a 2010 Moroccan film written and directed by Nassim Abassi, starring Brahim Al Bakali and Lotfi Sabir. The film premiered at the
Leighton House Museum
The Leighton House Museum is an art museum and historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.
The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–189 ...
with the Mena Film Festival.
Plot
The main character, a ten-year-old Moroccan orphan named Majid, has recently moved to
Mohammedia
Mohammedia (), known until 1960 as Fedala (), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, Samir Refinery, which makes it the cen ...
with his brother. His brother is an appealing and careless drunk. Majid makes very little money on the streets selling books, and lives a very simple and disheartening life. From the start of the film, Majid is having reoccurring nightmares and soon realizes that he cannot remember his deceased parents' (who had died in a fire) faces anymore. He also realizes that he has no photographs of his parents, except for a ruined family photograph, in which his parents' heads are burnt away from the photo due to the fire. He meets a new street-smart friend named Larbi, who helps him on the journey to find a photograph of his parents. This search leads them to the big city of
Casablanca
Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...
where they come face to face with many dangerous events and become part of a moving adventure.
Cast
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Brahim Al Bakali as Majid
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Lotfi Sabir as Larbi
* Wassime Zidi
* Moulay Abdellah Lamrani
* Abderrahim Tounsi
* Mohammed Ben Brahim
* Aïcha Mahmah
* Hicham Ibrahimi
* Mostafa El Houari
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Aziz Hattab
* Youssef Karte
* Brahim Khai
* Mohamed Harraga
* Yassine Sekkal
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Fayçal Azizi
Inspiration
Nassim Abassi was brought up in Morocco, and had many inspirations for the film ''Majid''. Abassi had stated:
Reception
The film was greatly received by many critics. Raphael Cormack had written in the ''Arab Review'' that the film is "both genuinely funny and genuinely moving". The film had also won numerous awards like in Morocco's National Film Festival, Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and many more.
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 1894497
Moroccan drama films
2010 films