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The dark underbelly of Casablanca – a world of night clubs and brothels – is not a place for fateful love, and yet it sometimes flourishes here. The fallen woman Rajae and the devilish former rocker Larsen are brought together by a car crash, and their hearts can never be separated again… Director Ismaël El Iraki says that Zanka Contact is not a film but an all-consuming flame – and the viewer has to agree with him. Wild at Heart and True Romance with an oriental twist.
Synopsis
The dark underbelly of Casablanca – a world of night clubs and brothels – is not a place for fateful love, and yet it sometimes flourishes here. The fallen woman Rajae and the devilish former rocker Larsen (who never leaves his snakeskin-covered guitar out of sight) are brought together by a car crash, and their hearts can never be separated again… Director Ismaël El Iraki says that Zanka Contact is not a film but an all-consuming flame – and we are forced to agree with him. Wild at Heart and True Romance with an oriental twist and a wild homage to Italian Westerns and Morocco’s 1970s rock scene – all that is Zanka Contact.
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About the director

Ismaël El Iraki (1983, Morocco). Filmography: Carcasse (2007, short), H’rash (2009, short), Zanka Contact (2020).
Contacts
True Colours
Largo Gemini 1, 00161, Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 063 735 2334
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.truecolours.it
About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Horizons |
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Director: | Ismaël El Iraki |
Screenplay: | Ismaël El Iraki |
Dir. of Photography: | Benjamin Rufi |
Music: | Alexandre Tartière, Neyl Nejjai |
Editor: | Camille Mouton |
Art Director: | Adrien Ernandez |
Producer: | Saïd Hamich Benlarbi |
Production: | Barney Production |
Coproduction: | Mont Fleuri Production, Velvet Films |
Cast: | Khansa Batma, Ahmed Hammoud, Saïd Bey |
Sales: | True Colours |
Guests

Ismaël El Iraki
Film Director