This film, the first in what has become a semi-autobiographical trilogy for Smihi, follows the everyday experiences of Mohamed-Larbi Salmi against the changing Moroccan society. In 1950s Tangier, Larbi Salmi is a young, timid, pre-teen, boy, trying to make sense of the gentle religious upbringing of his father, the secular education offered him in French school, and his budding desires for the forbidden pleasures of the cinema and the women he meets through it.
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Moumen Smihi Director · Ody Roos Editor
First release November 13, 2005 · Produced in Morocco · Original title العايل: طفولة متمردة
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Morocco
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Original title
العايل: طفولة متمردة
Original language
Arabic
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Arabic
Release dates
Morocco · November 13, 2005
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