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  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her...

Directed By: Maryam Touzani

Written By: Maryam Touzani

  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 38 m

Adam

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Summary Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her...

Directed By: Maryam Touzani

Written By: Maryam Touzani

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80
Jan 30, 2023
Taking the stories of two women, both frozen in existential stasis, and bringing them together in a predictable yet deeply satisfying manner, the writer-director ensures this scrupulously even two-hander about grief, shame, and the redemption of motherhood doles out emotional comfort food that’s neither too sweet nor too heavy.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 30, 2023
With great delicacy, [Maryam Touzani] shows how Moroccan society censures a woman who gives birth outside marriage — not a terribly original theme, but here it is made heartrending by the superb performances of Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi in the lead roles.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 4, 2021
Subtly moving, Adam is a beautiful expression of untainted sorority.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 30, 2023
Deft performances from Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi add heart and soul to this slender chronicle of a de facto family learning to rely on one another.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 4, 2021
In Maryam Touzani’s Adam, certain stylistic choices — a muted palette, the absence of a melodramatic score, hand-held camerawork — help temper sentimentality with verisimilitude.
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Production Company Ali n' Productions, Les Films du Nouveau Monde, Artémis Productions, Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Canal+, Ciné+, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), VOO, BE TV, Shelter Prod, Taxshelter. be, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Doha Film Institute
Release Date Mar 5, 2021
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://strandreleasing.com/films/adam/
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Awards

Carthage Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
THE CRITICS AWARDS FOR ARAB FILMS
• 4 Nominations
El Gouna Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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