Cinéma Inch’Allah! sketches the portrait of four friends, four Belgian-Moroccan filmmakers who live in a densely populated neighbourhood of Brussels. These friends share the same dream: to make movies. Since adolescence, and with incredible enthusiasm, they have managed to produce over thirty low-budget movies in which they often have played the main characters themselves. Their movies are not only the sum of their fears and desires, but also a way of projecting an image of themselves towards their own community and the outside world. But a lot has changed since adolescence… In their personal lives Farid, Reda, Mohamed and Noureddine are at a crossroad and choices seem inevitable. When one of them decides to radically change his life, their friendship and the future of their common cinema goals are threatened. Can the group survive this crisis or have they outgrown each other? Will they finally join the ranks of professional filmmakers and assert themselves? Or should they instead focus on their family and their community? Will they survive this as a group and manage to make films as friends? Cinéma Inch’Allah! demonstrates their balance between dream and reality. The film shows how Farid, Mo’, Reda and Nourredine navigate between their work and their passion, Belgium and Morocco, tradition and modernity, family and friends, and dreams and reality.
Production: Domino Production, Savage Film
Co-production: CBA, RTBF, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
With the support of the Fonds Audiovisuel Flamand (VAF), Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, VOO, Programme Media Développement de l’UE, Belgian Taxshelter for Film Financing, Commission Communautaire Flamande
2013:
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF), Belgium, 09/13