ADAM
synopsis
Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
original title: | Adam |
country: | Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar |
sales agent: | Films Boutique |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Maryam Touzani |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | CH 19/12/2019, FR 5/02/2020, BE 5/02/2020, ES 27/03/2020, NL 2/04/2020 |
screenplay: | Nabil Ayouch |
cast: | Lubna Azabal, Nissrine Erradi, Douae Belkhaouda, Aziz Hattab, Hasnaa Tamtaoui |
cinematography by: | Virginie Surdej |
film editing: | Julie Naas |
art director: | Pilar Peredo |
costumes designer: | Aida Diouri |
producer: | Nabil Ayouch |
co-producer: | Amine Benjelloun, Patrick Quinet |
production: | Les Films du Nouveau Monde, Artémis Productions, Ali n' Productions (MA) |
backing: | Doha Film Institute (QA) |
distributor: | Ad Vitam, Filmcoopi, Cinéart, Karma Films, Cinéart Netherlands B.V., Movies Inspired |