WHERE ARE YOU GOING MOSHE? (FINEMACHIYAMOSHE?)

In the early 1960s, after Morocco’s independence from France, many of the country’s Jews clandestinely left for Israel. In Finemachiyamoshe (Where Are You Going Moshe?), the Jews of the little town of Bejjad plot their departure with the help of their rabbi. One thing, however, worries them: Will Berbeq’ha, the idiot who thinks he’s a general, leave too? Once he learns of the Jews’ plans, Mustapha, the bar-owner, panics; if all the non-Muslims leave, the Law will make him close the bar. How will he avoid such a disaster? He’ll have to hold back one Jew! That’s Hassan’s idea, anyway. He’s Mustapha’s son and lover of Rachel, Shlomo’s daughter. What will become of the Bejjad bar?

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Hassan Benjelloun
Director

Moroccan-born scriptwriter, director and producer Hassan Benjelloun made his first feature film La Fête des autres in 1990, followed by Yarit in 1994, Les amis d’hier in 1997, Les lèvres du silence in 2000 and Jugement d’une femme in 2001. The latter film recounts the situation of women in Morocco and won many festival prizes. His most recent film La chambre noire examines Morocco’s dark period during the 1970s and won the grand prize at the Khouribga African Film Festival, a Silver Yennega Stallion at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, and received a special mention of the Jury at the International Carthage Festival in Tunis.

35 mm

90 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

1.85

Original version in Arab and in French

Dubbed in French

Subtitled in French, in English and in Spanish

Producers

Hassan Benjelloun

Anne-Marie Gélinas

Andrew Noble

Director and Scriptwriter

Hassan Benjelloun

Director of Photography

Kamal Derkaoui

Editor

Aube Foglia

Sound

Fawzi Thabet

Philippe Attié

Luc Boudrias

Cast

Simon Elbaz

Abdelkader Lotfi

Hassan Essakalli

Mohamed Tsouli

Rim Shmaou

Production

Productions Jeux d’Ombres
8592, rue Foucher
Montreal, Quebec
H2P 2C5
(514) 523-9933
(514) 523-9900
info@pjo.ca
www.pjo.ca

Coproduction - Morocco

Bentaqerla Productions
32, boul. de la Résistance
Casablanca
Morocco
212 22 44 62 62
212 22 44 62 62
labiza@menara.ma

Distribution

Filmoption International inc.
3401, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Westmount, Quebec
H3Z 1X1
(514) 931-6180
(514) 939-2034
email@filmoption.com
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