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The Cry of Silence
Jérôme Cohen-Olivar's latest feature film, premiered at the Angoulême French-Language Film Festival and the Tangier National Film Festival in 2025. An international co-production produced by Zhor Fassi-Fihri, shot in Casablanca with support from the Moroccan Film Center.
Malika raises Adam alone, her son with profound autism and epilepsy. Their days are filled with crises, screams, and a perpetual battle against injustice and loneliness. The encounter with Mahmoud, a cemetery keeper haunted by his past, will transform their destinies, offering a perspective of redemption and hope amid the pain.
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Born in Paris in 1964, Jérôme Cohen-Olivar spent his childhood in Morocco before studying cinema at UCLA in Los Angeles, then acting direction at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York.
His cinema exists at society's margins, giving voice to the invisible, the forgotten, the silent. Between Casablanca and Paris, between legend and reality, his work explores identity, displacement, collective memory, and intimate struggles.
With Autisto (2025), he delivers his most personal film: an unfiltered look at profound autism and unconditional maternal love.
A young girl, devastated by her mother's death and in direct opposition to her father's fatalistic acceptance of the event as 'destined,' embarks on a quest for the truth behind her mother's demise. Her investigation leads her to invoke the spirit of a 17th-century Kabbalist.
The Moroccan legend of Kandisha returns in a restored 4K version. The cult 2008 supernatural thriller receives a complete restoration for an unprecedented visual experience. Rediscover this Moroccan fantasy cinema classic like never before.