ALI ZAOUA

Year: 2000
UK: Millennium Film Distributors
Cast: Mounim Kbab, Mustapha Hansali, Hicham Moussoune, Abdelhak Zharya, Saïd Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Majd, Hicham Ibrahimi, Khalil Essaadi, Abdessamad Tourab Seddam, Karim Merzak, Halima Frizi, Nadia Ould Hajjaj
Director: Nabil Ayouch
Countries: France / Morocco / Tunisia
Languages: French / Arabic (English subtitles)
UK: 98 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, violence, and sex and drug references. To obtain this category cuts of 14 seconds were required. The cuts were compulsory. Cut required to a single scene of animal cruelty (live chicken being cut with knife) in accordance with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.
UK Release Date: 22 March 2002

Synopsis

Winner of numerous awards around the world, this is a charming fable about four childhood friends who are former gang members, living on the streets. One of them, Ali, has a vivid imagination and wants to become a sailor so that he can visit all the places that he has heard about. When he is killed by one of their former gang, the other three determine to give him the burial at sea that he would have wanted and vow to find the island with two suns that Ali dreamed about, whilst at the same time transforming their own lives.