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Elsa, 12, lives with her mother in a small village in Provence, France. She eagerly awaits the arrival of her Algerian grandfather who is visiting them for the first time. This encounter will unexpectedly transform her relationship with her mother.

Martin celebrates his fourteenth birthday with his shoeshine friends. Between superstitions and a land that comes to life, their bodies will only be flesh under a few light flashes.

In a traditional Moroccan household, on the outskirts of a small town, 26-year-old Aicha leads a monotonous life—her day filled with household chores and caring for her elderly, bedridden mother. But in the evening, she slips out and waits to cross the path of a lorry driver.

A 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic turn. The mother joins a mystic ceremony to face her grief and the lost bond with her daughter.

Rid of her rival Gloria, Aïcha will do everything to make her boss proud, with Ginette's help. Patrick presents her with a love ultimatum: their mothers must meet. And to top it off, things are getting worse in the neighborhood.

Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Between social diktats, conservatism and disillusionment, Aya is not the happiest girl in the world. One day, a misfortune befalls her. Aya doesn't know yet that this will be the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to her. An unexpected opportunity for this young woman who sees her life completely questioned.

For Aicha follows Bouchra, a 35-year-old Moroccan jackal and filmmaker living in New York, as she writes an auto-biographical film exploring how her queerness has impacted her mother Aicha, a cardiologist jackal living in Casablanca. The story blends fiction —Bouchra’s film within the film— with an adaptation of recorded non-fiction conversations between Bennani and her mother. With tenderness and humor, both “filmmaker Bouchra” and “fictional Bouchra” seek to understand the nuances of their mother’s love and pain in order to move forward with their lives. The decision to use animated animals in this and previous works is a deliberate way of smuggling complicated messages in innocuous-seeming vessels. The narrative form of animation thus becomes a powerful device for addressing current and emerging topics in an inventive and intriguing form.

The film is a tale of authentic Moroccan heritage, which tells the story of a poor family made up of Father Salem, known as "Zatat", who accompanies and guards commercial convoys from bandits. Due to the intensity of the father's attachment to his three daughters and his fear for them, he stopped working and stayed with them. But one day, he had to travel, the father’s news disappeared, and the three sisters believed that he had perished. Aouisha, the youngest daughter, professes deception to take care of her two sisters, and each time the sovereign "Moulay Abid" confronts her with a holster of the monument, she escapes him because of his excessive intelligence and his insight.

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.