In the North of Morocco, Tangiers smuggler Amira sees the rise of the most violent of her two sons, Assil, in the world of cannabis drug lords throw her family in the pits of tragedy.

Amira Ouazzani, a cigarette smuggler, is the mother of inseparable brothers Assil and Dollar. Assil draws the attention of Mountassir, a cannabis drug lord: he brings the Ouazzanis to the Rif Mountains where they discover his feudal and violent world.
Assil quickly becomes close friends with the baron's Spanish partner Saval. The Spaniard meets Amira, a love is born… but Assil's hubris his gets violently punished by Mountassir. Vexed, Amira hatches a plan to replace the old baron: the Ouazzanis raise an army of cannabis peasants, the Hashishins, and take the Rif an epic assault that costs Dollar's life.
Broken by his brother's death, hunted by the law and exiled in Marbella, the new Emir of the Rif plummets into anger and isolation. Assil opposes Amira's marriage to Saval: invited to their wedding, he unexpectedly kills the groom before his mother's eyes, shooting the Hashishin's female leader Batoul in the process. In prison, Assil is given an emperor's welcome by the other inmates. But his former close guard surround him in the crowd: Assil dies a Caesar's death, stabbed by his Hashishins.
Heartbroken, unbroken, Amira outlives all of her men and takes over the direction of the traffic.

estrelado / starring / avec :


a film by / un film de
Ismaël EL IRAKI

FILM IN DEVELOPMENT (since 2022)
Morocco, Feature Fiction, 1h35, Thriller & Drama, in Arabic, French, Berber

Second feature / Second Long métrage Fiction


INTENTION (BY THE FILM DIRECTOR)
Morocco's number one industry is illegal. Cannabis trafficking is nonetheless a daily reality and for many Moroccans, the only refuge of a scorned ambition, often the only way of reaching that Spanish shore taunting you only 14 km away.
WOLFMOTHER is equally inspired by actual Tangerine drug lords and by ancient Greek tragedies. Like my first feature and short films, my aim here is to channel Moroccan realities into universal stories in a cinematic and subversive way: my filmmaker's gesture is claiming my right to mythology, imagination and style. Not describing reality. I believe in fiction, in composing new object and modernizing ancient ones like izran, the Rif's old war poem art form. My Mohawk- wearing Hashishins are equally the children of Michael Mann's Mohicans and of Abdelkrim's Riffian freedom fighters. My Morocco is a land of fiction filled with visions of cinema: everything screams western in the Rif, from the kif fields hidden in the mountains to the weathered faces of shotgun-bearing peasants. Tangiers is haunted by films noirs from its dark, yellowy-lit alleys and dive bars to the double-edged humor of its crooked cops. Tragedy always looms in the background, and that is the reality I most want to capture.
- Ismaël EL IRAKI


Título / Original title / Titre Original : WOLFMOTHER
Título Internacional (en Inglês) / International Title (English) / Titre international (Anglais) : WOLFMOTHER
Título (França / Bélgica) / Title (France / Belgium) / Titre (France, Belgique) : Les fils de la Louve
Outro título (em árabe) / Other Title (in Arabic) / Autre Titre (en arabe) : اولاد الغولة
Outro título (em francês) / Other Title (in French) / Autre Titre (en français) :
Duração / Duración / Runtime / Durée : 95' (1h 35 minutes, 00:95:00)
Tipo / Type / Type : Longa-metragem de ficção / Feature Fiction / Long-métrage Fiction
Gênero / Genre : Thriller, Drama / Thriller, Drame
Idioma / Languages / Langues de tournage : Francês, Árabe, Berbere / French, Arabic, Berber / Français, Arabe, Berbère
Subtítulos / Subtitles / Sous-titres :
País de Produção / Country of Production / Pays de Production : França, Marrocos / France, Morocco / France, Maroc
País do Diretora / Filmmaker's Country / Pays du réalisateur : Marrocos / Morocco / Maroc
País de filmagem / Country of Filming / Pays de tournage : Marrocos / Morocco / Maroc
Ano de Produção / Year of production / Année de production : 2022-
Ano de lançamento / Year of Release / Année de Sortie :
Cores / Colors / Couleurs : Cor / Color / Couleur
Suporte de difusão / Media / Support de diffusion :
Formato / Aspect Ratio / Format Image :
Formato de som / Sound Mix / Format Son :
Orçamento estimado / Estimated Budget / Budget prévisionnel : $3,646,589
TAGS : Amizade, Estresse, Família, Mulheres, Friendship, Stress, Family, Women, Amitié, Stress, Famille


ELENCO / CAST / ACTRICES-ACTEURS
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PRODUTORA EXECUTIVA / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / PRODUCTRICE DÉLÉGUÉ :

PRODUTORES / PRODUCERS / PRODUCTEURS :
David GRUMBACH (Bac Films)
Alexis HOFMANN (Bac Films)

DIRECTOR / REALIZAÇÃO / RÉALISATEUR :
Ismaël EL IRAKI

Guionista / Screenplay / Scénariste :
Ismaël EL IRAKI

Dir. de Fotografia / Director of Photography / Directeur de la photo :
Director de Som / Sound Recordist (Sound Engineer) / Ingénieur du son :
Música / Composer (Original Music) / Musique :
Montagem / Editing / Montage :
Sound Editor / Monteur son :
Direcção de Arte / Production design / Décors :
Costumes design / Costumes :
Sound Mixing / Mixage :
Gerente de Produção / Unit production manager / Directeur de production :
Assistente Realização / Assistant Director / Assistante Réalisatrice :
Makeup artist / Maquillage :
Special makeup effects artist / Maquillage Effets Spéciaux :
Boom operator / Perchiste :
Stunts Coordinator / Cascadeur :
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Assistant editor / Assistant monteur :
Location Manager / Régisseur :
Script supervisor / Script-Girl :
Transportation Captain / Responsable Transports :
Set photography / Photographe de plateau :
Behind the scenes footage / Tournage Making-of :
Creative director / Creative director :
Illustration / Illustrations (Générique) :
THANKS / REMERCIEMENTS :


PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION :
BAC Films (France)

PARTNERS / PARTENAIRES
BAC Films (France)
Centre du Cinéma Marocain (Morocco)
Instituto de la cinematografia y de las artes audiovisuales (ICAA) and Tax Credit (Spain)
Screen Flanders and Tax Credit (Belgium)
Red Sea Fund (Saudi Arabia)

DISTRIBUTION


VENTES / SALES

CONTACT (Print Copy / Diffusion du film, Festivals)
Mr. Alexis HOFMANN
BAC Films Production
9 rue Pierre Dupont - 75010 PARIS, France
+33 6.88.06.86.30 | a.hofmann(@)bacfilms.fr


RELEASE / SORTIE SALLES


FESTIVALS - AWARDS / PRIX

* Red Sea Souk Development Award, with a grant of 35,000 USD (RED SEA LODGE PROJECTS) //// Red Sea International Film Festival - RSIFF 2022, Saudi Arabia | Financing already acquired / Financement déjà acquis : $500,000 | https://redseafilmfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Book-of-Projects_English.pdf


Fontes / Our Source / Nos Sources (READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- https://redseafilmfest.com/en/project-market/
- https://redseafilmfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Book-of-Projects_English.pdf
Updated by Thierno DIA, 23 Feb 2023