HEADBANG LULLABY
by Hicham Lasri
synopsis
Casablanca, June 11, 1986 – the day of the World Cup. After yet another blunder, embittered cop Daoud is sent by his dissatisfied superiors to spend the day on a bridge between two warring neighbourhoods in order to protect the hypothetical passage of a royal procession. A prisoner of the bridge, Daoud will be transformed by contact with the inhabitants of both villages. He will learn maturity after spending time with a five-year-old child and a mother who upheld her dignity, despite having had her head shaved by the secret police. This apparently normal day made up of absurd waiting, improbable encounters and brutal poetry takes place under the giant shadow of a messianic monarch whose passage disturbs the delicate balance of a motley population.
international title: | Headbang Lullaby |
original title: | Darbat fi alrras |
country: | France, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Hicham Lasri |
film run: | 111' |
screenplay: | Hicham Lasri |
cast: | Aziz Hattab Moqadem, El Jirari Benaissa, Latefa Ahrrare, Adil Abatorab, Salma Eddlimi, Zoubir Abou El Fadl |
cinematography by: | Charles-Hubert Morin |
film editing: | Mona-Lise Lanfant |
art director: | Rachid Joundoul |
music: | Wissam Hojeij |
producer: | Thomas Guentch, Mikael Clouet, Rita El Quessar |
production: | Les Films de l’Heure Bleue, Pan Production (MA) |
backing: | CNC (Aide aux Cinémas du Monde et Aide à la musique), Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Région Bretagne, Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Doha Film Institute |