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May 26, 2023 · ‘The Mother of All Lies’ Review: An Inspired Moroccan Documentary Tackles Family Secrets and a Nation’s History. Helmer Asmae El Moudir won the best director prize in Cannes' Un Certain ...
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]
“The Mother of All Lies” is an astonishing work whose maturity comes from El Moudir’s wide-eyed approach to her family history, where memory and history are quite literally reduced to ...
- Manuel Betancourt
May 24, 2023 · Cannes: Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s inventive doc explores how memories are influenced by historical erasure…with model figurines! By Josh Slater-Williams. May 24, 2023 3:00 pm. "The ...
Jan 23, 2024 · The Mother of All Lies, which screened January 22 at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is a beautiful mix of marionettes and diorama and real people (the filmmaker’s family) in a real house. It’s a blend of Arabic and French, pleasant memories and much darker ones.
The Mother of All Lies. On a handmade set recreating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help solve the troubling mysteries of her childhood.
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May 11, 2023 · Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s Cannes entry 'The Mother of All Lies' is a documentary hybrid about the lies that pervaded her childhood in Casablanca.
