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// Presented as part of February's Foreign Language Oscar Submissions III Series //

Nabil Ayouch / 2014, Cannes, Rotterdam, Seattle, Valladolid / 115'

Yachine and his older brother Hamid reside in Sidi Moumen, a slum assembled along the periphery of Casablanca. Both boys are exposed to a quotidian atmosphere of scarcity and fear, working odd jobs to put food on their family's table, rare moments of elation deriving from soccer matches on a makeshift field. Hamid soon falls under the influence of a local gang and lands in prison; he re-emerges some years later newly committed to a fundamentalist form of Islam. Longing to reconnect with his brother, Yachine begins attending the sermons of the Imam Abou Zoubeir, who soon announces that the boys have been chosen to perform an act of martyrdom.
Embracing a social-realistic aesthetic approach and filmed using non-professional actors, Horses of God unsettles the facile binaries that often characterize our conceptions of terrorism, poverty, violence, and religious extremism. Nabil Ayouch's fourth feature premiered at Cannes, where it won the François Chalais Award; Rotterdam, where it won the MovieZone Award; Seattle, where it won Best Director; and Valladolid, where it won Best Film. Horses of God was selected as Morocco's official submission to the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

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