Moroccan documentary (Y)our Mother wins top prize at Amman Film Festival

The Moroccan film (Y)our Mother has won Best Arab Feature Documentary at the 6th Amman International Film Festival, Awal Film. Directed by Samira El Mouzghibati it follows a journey of family tragedy that reveals how the director’s sisters reacted, marginalizing their mother. Berlin film critic Topper Sherwood described the documentary as:

“The freedom of women is the point of this film: Liberation from the smothering care of one’s mother — as well as liberation from the sometimes-asphyxiating embrace of our parents’ traditional beliefs, in this case, of religion.”

A total of 60 films from 23 countries were screened at the Amman festival under the theme “An Unscripted World.”