– 2018 THESSALONIKI — FIPRESCI Prize
– 2018 CARTHAGE — Special Mention, Best First Work
– 2018 BRATISLAVA — Best Director
– 2018 CANNES — Un Certain Regard-Best Screenplay

Sofia, who is in denial of her pregnancy, gets labor pains during a family meal with guests. Thanks to her med student cousin Lena’s vigilance, they go to a hospital without alerting anyone and she delivers her baby. However, her family aside, bureaucracy and laws get involved as well: if she won’t reveal the identity of the father, the hospital will need to inform the authorities. In her feature-length debut, Meryem Benm’barek delivers a thorough and striking analysis of class differences, gender inequality, matriarchal traditions, and taboos that form the fabric of Moroccan society starting off from article 490 of the country’s penal code which sanctions prison sentences for sexual relations out of wedlock.

Sofia.2018.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-thr.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
Size: 	1.69 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 811 kb/s
BPP: 	0.122
Audio
#1:  	Arabic 2.0ch AAC LC @ 129 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/7742214FFE7FF96/Sofia.2018.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-thr.mkv

Language(s):Arabic, French
Subtitles:English

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