Farida Benlyazid

  • Farida Benlyazid – Bab Al-Sama Maftuh AKA A Door to the Sky (1988)

    Drama1981-1990ArthouseFarida BenlyazidMorocco

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    Directed by Farida Belyazid. Cast: Zaki-yah Tahiri, Eva Saint Paul, Shuaybiyah Adhrawi, Bashir Sukayrij, Ahmad al-Buanani. Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre, returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is moved by the voice of Karina chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as Nadia decides to turn her father’s place into a Muslim women’s shelter. A Sufi tale told in a metaphoric lanaguage, A door to the sky was one of the first films from North Africa that addressed the social and economic changes as proposed by a spiritual Muslim woman on a quest to preserve her cultural and religious identity.Read More »

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