Nabil Ayouch Reflects on the Power of the Arts and ‘Casablanca Beats’
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variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch grew up in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, which he says is “quite violent,” during the late ’70s and early ’80s when hip-hop was emerging in France.
In the mid-’90s he moved to Casablanca, where he is now based, and became involved with the sprawling shantytown of Sidi Moumen on that city’s outskirts, a wasteland where extreme poverty and hopelessness have been known to breed Islamic terrorism.
That was the subject of his 2012 film “Horses of God,” which screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. Ayouch is now back on the Croisette with the more upbeat “Casablanca Beats,” marking the first Moroccan feature to make the Cannes competition cut.
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