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Sat 23 Feb
tangiers to tehran A Door to the Sky / Bab Al-Sama Maftouh Morocco | 1989 | col | 107 mins | dir. Farida Ben Lyzaid, with Zakia Tahri, Eva Saint Paul, Chaibia Aadroul Nadia returns to Fez to visit her dying father. Whilst there, she has a decisive meeting with a Muqaddima, a Sufi woman who lives on reciting religious verses. Nadia discovers she has Baraka, or healing power, and begins to seek a path in Sufi spirituality. But this in turn leads her to question her perceived status as a Moroccan woman with a French identity… Preceded by La Pelote de Laine, The Ball of Wood (dir. Fatma Zohra Zamoun | France/Algeria | 2006 | 14 mins
Sat 23 Feb | 1.30pm | cert. 12A
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