• "Haut et fort" shares the experiences of a young rap teacher and his students in a cultural center in Casablanca.

  • Nabil Ayouch paints an optimistic portrait of the new Moroccan generation.

  • This dynamic film should fascinate the jury of Spike Lee as much as it seduced festival-goers.

Nabil Ayouch happily rocked the Croisette with the tonic

Haut et fort

which will be released in theaters on November 10.

The story of a rap teacher in a popular district of Casablanca and his young students thrilled festival-goers.

Spike Lee could also be won over by this optimistic vision of girls and boys in need of freedom of expression.

The director of

Horses of God

and

Much Loved has made a

success of his third visit to Cannes.

“I wouldn't be a filmmaker if I hadn't had the chance to attend a cultural center in Sarcelles, in the Parisian suburb where I grew up.

I learned a lot of things there and in particular that having several origins was an advantage and not a handicap ”, he explained during the press conference.

Music of claim

“I knew the first hip-hop sounds that came from the United States in the 1980s and I understood how powerful this music of social claim was and how much we at Sarcelles could do with it. take hold to be heard, ”says Nabil Ayouch.

This is what the characters in the film, initially shy and clumsy, do in turn, who learn to express their aspirations in a liberticidal Moroccan society.

Our file on the Cannes Film Festival

Nabil Ayouch surrounded himself with students from a real cultural center to shoot this film which evolves gracefully between freedom and fiction.

Religion, the way we live it, women's rights and the weight of the family are very present.

They are approached without taboos in the lyrics of the songs as in the discussions.

Without playing the lesson givers, the director asks good questions and lets his heroes and the spectator answer them.

The film offers a great dose of hope and music.

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  • Cannes film festival

  • Rap

  • 20 minutes video

  • Cinema

  • Morocco