Thirst
Atash
Morocco
2001
109 Min
Color
Arabic, French
Set in south Morocco in 1954. A confrontation for freedom between a French lieutenant, his wife and nationalists. —Africultures
Saad Chraibi (1952, Fez, Morocco) studied medicine for several years at the University of Casablanca. He wrote many articles and in 1979 he made his first feature Les cendres du clos.
De la vie d’un village (1978, short),Les cendres du clos (1979, co-dir), Paroles et expressions (1980, short), Absence (1982, short), Chroniques d’un vie normale (1990), Femmes…et femmes (1998), Soif (2000) —filmfestivalrotterdam.com