When cockroaches dream, they dream of dying a natural death - instead of being squashed by human hand. This prologue forms a leitmotif that runs through the entire third part of Hicham Lasri's "Trilogy of the Dog". The film's frequently hyper-realistic sequences describe the current state of the violent emotional dynamics governing contemporary Morocco: those between men and women, parents and children, the powerful and the disenfranchised. Moments of human humiliation link together the fates of six characters, located in a luxury country estate, an urban environment, and a quarry, respectively: the rape of a young woman; a suicidal man caught up in medieval fantasies; an unmarried daughter's pregnancy, her blind father only concerned about the racial purity of his family; a bigoted judge; a little boy desperately demanding mutton for a sacrificial feast banned by the king; and the shoe that hit George W. Bush on the head in Iraq.
Lasri's images carry the dynamics and power of a nightmare at once concrete and symbolic, straightforward and enigmatic, topical and timeless.

A film by Hicham Lasri

Morocco / France, 2018, Fiction, 94 min · Colour, Arabic

with Mostapha Houari, Salma Eddlimi, Hassan Ben Badida, Rami Fijjaj, Zoubir Abou Al Fadl

Written and directed by
Hicham Lasri

Director of Photography
Said Slimani

Editing
Zakaria Tibari

Music
Wissam Hojeij

Sound Design
Patrice Mendez

Sound
Anas Hamouch

Production Design
Hicham Lasri

CAST
Mostapha Houari (Lotfi)
Salma Eddlimi (Rita)
Hassan Ben Badida (Ali)
Rami Fijjaj (Yaya)
Zoubir Abou Al Fadl (Ali's Son)
Moulay Hassan Alaoui (Lotfi's Father)
Malek Akhmiss (Mr. Jolnir)
Zoubida Akif (Maid)
Nissrine Erradi (Fati)
Jalal Bouftaim (Chauffeur)
Youssef Lemrabet (Haj Kabir)

Producers
Lamia Chraïbi, LaProd & Moon a Deal Films, Michel Merkt


Produced by

LaProd
Casablanca, Morocco
+212 6 61233993
lamia@laprod.ma

Moon a Deal Films
Paris, France
+33 6 70281161
prodlamia@gmail.com


2018 | Berlinale, Germany
* Selection - Forum
* World premiere