This session highlights 6 Moroccan projects in development, presented for the first time to an international audience. Their creative visions and development strategies offer an insight into a new generation of Moroccan filmmaking.

ETERNAL PEACE
In a small English town, an immigrant father shoots his three children but not his ex-wife; her punishment is to live. Time moves backwards to tell their story.
Fiction
Morocco
Production: Kasbah Films
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
Status: In development

ROAD TO LIMBO
A fugitive criminal saves a child — a Zouhri — from a ritual sacrifice and must flee with him across mystical Morocco, pursued by police, sorcerers, and a bloodthirsty demon.
Fiction
Morocco/France
Production: Seven Shots, Méroé Films
Director: Ayoub Lahnoud
Status: In development

THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Sanaa, a single mother and star of The Headless Woman show, battles exploitation and patriarchy, fighting to reclaim her dignity and live her freedom on her own terms.
Doc.
Morocco/UK
Production: IrisProd, TV 2M, RedBird
Director: Mohamed Ali Essaghraoui
Status: In development

THE CEMETERY’S BIRDS
In a mist-covered town ruled by death, three individuals survive through deception and hidden plans.
Fiction
Morocco
Production: Cygnus Productions
Director: El Ghazouani Madane
Status: In development

THE LETTERS NEVER SENT
Jasmin, a renowned Finnish ballerina, travels to Morocco with Peppi to heal their relationship and find her missing father. Reunited with Lauri, a paternity test bonds them, but Lauri’s past crimes and a tragic hitchhiking incident lead to arrest. Freed, they face life-changing choices and Jasmin’s career dilemma.
Fiction
Morocco/Finland
Production: Abel Aflam, Oy Bufo Ab
Director: Mohamed El Aboudi
Status: In development

LOOKING BACCHUS
In 1982, a statue of Bacchus disappeared from the Roman site of Volubilis in Morocco. The neighboring village, unjustly suspected, was surrounded by the military and intelligence services, and its inhabitants were subjected to extreme physical and psychological torture. The statue of Bacchus remains missing to this day.
Doc.
Morocco
Production: Kasbah Films
Director: Ali Essafi
Status: In development