On the traces of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie EDIPO RE in Morocco. In this comedy of nowadays, Thami, a satellite dish salesman and former extra, was befriended with Pasolini during the shooting of Oedipus Rex in Ouarzazate. 40 years later, an Italian crew comes back to Ouarzazate to prepare the shooting of a film about the Bible. Thami is convinced that his friend Pasolini is back in town, thus triggering cinema fever in the whole village.
CHF 50'000 for production fiction
Kairo 2007: Award for Best Arab Film
Marrakech 2007
Les Films du Sud
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