Orient Weekly
Ziyara, by Simone Bitton: in the footsteps of Jewish saints in Morocco
Simone Bitton.
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By: Eric Battalion
This film is undoubtedly the most personal of the documentary filmmaker.
Simone Bitton films a road movie showing sumptuous landscapes, but also behind the scenes of Morocco.
Rediscovering Darija, the language of her childhood, she shows how little confessions matter when it comes to memory, respect and humanity.
The guardians of these Jewish holy places are mostly Muslims who pass on this function from generation to generation.
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