Canadian Premiere
Although the practice of coal extraction was halted in 2001, a treacherous mine in Jerada, Morocco remains informally active and is manned by the town’s residents, who collaboratively act out a performance of their labour.
Amine Mkallech, Laid Erramly
Morocco/France/Italy/Qatar
2025
In Dajira with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Randa Maroufi, Oumayma Zekri Ajarrai
Screenwriter
Randa Maroufi
Cinematography
Luca Coassin
Editor
Céline Perréard, Randa Maroufi
Production Design
Khalid Attafi
Randa Maroufi
Randa Maroufi is a visual artist and filmmaker born 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco. She graduated from the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, and Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains. In 2018, she became a fellow at the Académie de France à Madrid. Her films Le Park (2015) and Bab Sebta (2019), awarded at several festivals, are the first two installments in a trilogy dedicated to three Moroccan cities. L’mina (2025) is the final chapter of this trilogy.
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