cinematography
Caroline Champetier
editing
François Quiqueré
music
Nadah El Shazly

cast
Abdellah El Hajjouji (Selim)
Aicha Tebbae (Fatima-Zahra)
Antoine Reinartz (Sébastien)

production
Vixens
co-productions
Frakas Productions
Kasbah Films
producers
Gary Farkas
Clément Lepoutre
Olivier Muller
Karim Debbagh
co-producers
Jean-Yves Roubin
Cassandre Warnauts

with the support of
BBC Film
Eurimages
Aide aux cinémas du monde
Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Centre Cinématographique Marocain
Fonds Image de la Francophonie

world sales
Charades
www.charades.eu
sales@charades.eu

international press office
Susan Norget
www.norget.com
susan@norget.com

Fatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she’s caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point.

2022 Les damnés ne pleurent pas
2019 Lynn+Lucy
2015 Rate Me (short)
2012 The Curse (short)

“Les damnés ne pleurent pas combines melodrama and neorealism to tell the story of a mother-son relationship on the fringes, observing the effects of oppression – both economic and affective – in a cut-throat world.”

Fyzal Boulifa is a writer-director based between Paris, London and Tangier. He learned filmmaking from watching and shooting as many films as he could. His short films, The Curse and Rate Me, have twice won awards at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and been nominated for the BAFTAs. In 2019, he directed his first feature, Lynn+Lucy, for which he was nominated for a Debut Director Award at the British Independent Film Awards. The film premiered at the San Sebastián Festival and won multiple awards at Macao, Marrakech, Les Arcs and Vilnius. After Les damnés ne pleurent pas, Fyzal is currently working on his next feature, “Dying Young.”