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Jan 23, 2024 · January 23, 2024. Asmae El Moudir with her “Granny” puppet (Marc Sagliocco/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) One could attempt to summarize The Mother of All Lies by filmmaker Asmae El Moudir with the Tolstoy quote: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”. The Mother of All Lies, which ...
Language. Arabic. The Mother of All Lies ( Arabic: كذب أبيض, romanized : kadib ʿabyaḍ, lit. 'White Lies') is a 2023 Arabic-language documentary film directed, written, produced and edited by Asmae El Moudir. The film explores the director's search for truth in her family background, combining personal and national history. [3]
Apr 18, 2024 · Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, after which it traveled to other festivals such as TIFF (where M.J. O’Toole reviewed it) and then Sundance 2024 (where I reviewed it). The documentary tracks the director’s attempt to have her family wrestle with longstanding trauma and ...
Jan 22, 2024 · January 22, 2024 7:15 pm. Asmae El Moudir and the clay puppet of her grandmother, "The Mother of All Lies". Courtesy of Anne Thompson. Back in 2012, Asmae El Moudir started her magnum opus, “The ...
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Nov 30, 2023 · Moroccan multihyphenate Asmae El Moudir is having a good year. And deservedly so. After more than a decade of work on her feature debut “ The Mother of All Lies ,” a complex, innovative ...
Jul 4, 2023 · Karlovy Vary: ‘The Mother of All Lies,’ A Handmade-Tale of Memory. Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s discusses how she unraveled her family's, and her country's web of lies around the ...
Oct 23, 2023 · The Mother of All Lies: Directed by Asmae ElMoudir. With Mohamed El Moudir, Asmae ElMoudir, Zahra Jeddaoui, Said Masrour. A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history.
