Fevers
MOROCCO
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2014
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Color
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90 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
At just thirteen years old, Benjamin is already a soldier at war with life, with adults, and with himself. He is a troubled teenager with a tormented soul, who has been in and out of foster homes since he was five. At one point, his mother is imprisoned and reveals to Benjamin the existence of his father. From then on, Benjamin has only one goal: to leave the temporary foster home. So, when the social worker gives him the option to leave, he decides to go live with his father, whom he doesn't know. Karim Zeroubi, his father, is a man in his forties who still lives with his parents in the suburbs of Paris. He is a man in delicate health who has never ventured beyond his neighborhood and is content with the life he has. Now, with the arrival of this insolent and impulsive teenager who will violently change his life, he finds himself completely helpless.
Technical Details
Direction:
Hicham Ayouch
Cinematography:
Boubkar Benzabat
Music:
Bachar Khalifé
Language:
French
Production:
Natacha Delmon Casanova, Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, Hicham Ayouch
Art Direction:
William Abello
Sound:
Hassan Kamrani
Subtitles:
English and Spanish
Screenplay:
Hicham Ayouch, Aicha Yacoubi
Editing:
Julien Foure
Cast:
Didier Michon (Benjamin), Slimane Dazi (Karim Zeroubi), Farida Amrouche (Zohra Zeroubi), Pascal Elso (Nounours), Tony Harrisson (Claude), Alain Azerot (Mr. Teddy), Adrien Saint-Joré (Mr.Mr. Lopez), Atika Taoualit (Trini), Emilia Derou-Bernal (social worker)
Director
Hicham Ayouch
Born in Paris, France, in 1976, to a French mother and a Moroccan father. As a journalist, he worked with several French channels before becoming a writer and filmmaker, and leaving France to live in Morocco, his father's country of origin. His first two feature films were documentaries: The King’s Queens (2005), about the status of women in Morocco, and Angel’s Dust (2007), about autistic teenagers. He has also directed two short films: Bomblywood (2005) and As They Say (2011). His first fiction feature, Heart Edges (2006), revolved around a vanished fishing village struck by tragedy, while his second, Fissures (2009), focused on a love triangle between three people with social adaptation problems in Tangier. Fevers, his third fiction feature, won the Golden Stallion at FESPACO.
