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Oct 23, 2023 · 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. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Asmae ElMoudir
- 2023-10-23
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.
Jul 4, 2023 · Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s discusses how she unraveled her family's, and her country's web of lies around the 1981 Bread Riots — using model figurines — in her Cannes...
Asmae El Moudir took on the herculean task of writing, producing, directing, editing and narrating her film “The Mother of All Lies” herself, as executive film and media editor Tatiana Siegel...
- 8 min
- Jaden Thompson
Jan 22, 2024 · Back in 2012, Asmae El Moudir started her magnum opus, “The Mother of all Lies,” which debuted at Cannes 2023, where it won the Best Documentary prize.
Oct 17, 2023 · Asmae El Moudir‘s The Mother of All Lies is a highly personal and political film — it’s powerful cinema by way of El Moudir’s innovative exploration of the narratives and the transformative potential of art in confronting concealed individual and collective memories.
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Nov 30, 2023 · After more than a decade of work on her feature debut “The Mother of All Lies,” a complex, innovative documentary hybrid, the director-writer-producer saw the film world premiere in Cannes ...
