Writer-director Sofia Alaoui follows up her Sundance-winning short with this genre-bending tale of an unidentified meteorological phenomenon that upends the life of a pregnant woman. By Jordan Mintzer ...

Oumaima Barid stars in the movie, which premiered at Sundance, where it won a special jury prize for creative vision. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The deal was negotiated by Isra Al Kassi of ...

Born to a French mother, a Moroccan father and raised for some years in China, filmmaker Sofia Alaoui grants that her upbringing had a more international expanse than most. The same could be said for ...

EXCLUSIVE: Casablanca-born French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui is one of the Arab world’s hottest rising talents. The director won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for her supernatural short So What If ...

A careful camera takes note of the placid symmetries of a gated house in a desert location. A fountain flows in the courtyard. A chandelier hangs in the hallway. Rococo chairs share plush rooms with ...

London-based TAPE Collective has acquired Sofia Alaoui‘s Moroccan-French genre-bending supernatural feature Animalia for a theatrical release in the U.K. and Ireland. The deal was negotiated by Isra ...