Filmmaker Asmae El Moudir, making her feature directorial drama, starts her non-fiction film “The Mother Of All Lies” as a modest family chronicle—an elevated home video of sorts. It is soon clear, though, that she has much more on her mind because the actual subject of her inquiry is the collective amnesia around a seminal event that changed Morocco forever, the 1981 Casablanca bread riots. A shattering moment in history that tore apart families and communities, it resulted in the massacre of over 600 civilians—erased from history books it seems.

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The 2023 Cannes Film Festival ends tomorrow, but awards for the fest start today, at least in the Un Certain Regard category. With John C. Reilly presiding as Jury president, and Paula Beer, Davy Chou, Alice Winocour, and Émilie Dequenne as fellow jurors, announced their winners today on la Croisette. And the winner of the Uncertain Regard Prize?

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It’s Molly Manning Walker‘s debut film “How To Have Sex,” about three British teens who go on a rite-of-passage holiday that ends up much more sobering than the girls expect.

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Just because a film premieres out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival doesn’t mean it’s not a must-watch. For example, take the fest’s Un Certain Regard section, which aims to curate films that exemplify the richness and diversity of different cinema cultures worldwide. One of the more intriguing movie in that section this year?  Asmae El Moudir‘s documentary “The Mother Of All Lies,” which premieres toward the end of Cannes’ first week.

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