GREATER ADRIA
CALLE MÁLAGA
DIRECTOR:Maryam Touzani
COUNTRY: FR, ES, DE, BE, MA
YEAR/DURATION: 2025. • 116′
drama, romance
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Virginie Surdej
- EDITOR:Teresa Font
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Eve Martin, Samir Issoum
- SCORE: Kristian Freza Arde
- CAST: Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane
- PRODUCERS: Nabil Ayouch, Amine Benjelloun, Jean-Rémi Ducourtioux
- CO-PRODUCERS: Sol Bondy, Fernando Bovaira, Fred Burle, Simón de Santiago, Oliviere Père, Sebastian Schelenz
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ali n’ Productions (MA)
- CO-PRODUCED BY: BY Les Films du Nouveau Monde (FR), Mod Producciones (ES), One Two Films (DE), Velvet Films (BE)
- DISTRIBUTION: MCF
Festivals and awards
Moroccan entry for the 2026 Academy Awards!
Venice International Film Festival 2025 – Audience Award
Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2025 – Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Film and Audience Award
Synopsis
Maria Ángeles is an independent older woman living in the Spanish quarter of Tangier. When her daughter Clara unexpectedly arrives with plans to sell the family home in order to ease the financial difficulties caused by her divorce, Maria firmly refuses to leave the house and the community to which she belongs. Determined to keep her home and recover the cherished belongings Clara has already sold off, she devises a clever plan to earn the necessary money.
Trailer
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About the director
Maryam Touzani (Tangier, 1980) is a Moroccan director and screenwriter. After studying journalism in London, she turned to filmmaking; her early short films When They Slept (2012) and Aya Goes to the Beach (2015) won numerous international awards. She collaborated closely with director Nabil Ayouch, co-writing and starring in his feature Razzia (2017). Her feature directorial debut, Adam (2019), premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, won over thirty awards, and was selected as Morocco’s official submission for the Academy Awards. In 2019, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her second feature, The Blue Caftan (2022), won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards
Screenings
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- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 14.7.2026.
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- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 14.7.2026.
