Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of ...

Ali Zaoua and Animals Crossing the Road, two of the seven movies included in the Sydney Film Festival’s New Directors category, attempt to examine the lives of poverty stricken youth. The first deals ...

A handful of street kids in Casablanca struggle to pay tribute to a fallen comrade in this drama. Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) is a homeless boy who runs with his friends Omar (Mustapha Hansali), ...

Ali Zaoua is a Moroccan street child, a runaway from his prostitute mother. With a few friends, he has broken away from the clutches of Dib, a violent Faginesque gang leader, played by Said Taghmaoui ...

Ali Zaoua may have been left to wander the streets of Casablanca with the rest of the city's glue-sniffing street urchins, but when he's killed in a stone fight with a gang of boys, his three friends ...

This 2000 Moroccan feature by Nabil Ayouch spins an engrossing tale about a quartet of filthy, glue-addicted boys who fend for themselves on the waterfront of Casablanca. The title character, who ...

Details: 2001, France, Rest of the world, Cert 12, 95 mins Direction: Nabil Ayouch Genre: Drama Summary: Ali Zaoua is a street urchin in the streets of modern-day Casablanca With: Maunim Kbab, Mounim ...

Touching Moroccan drama about a group of street kids who try to give their best friend, a dreamer killed at random during a street fight, a proper burial. Director Nabil Ayouch avoids both overt ...