Archive of films Zanka Contact / Zanka Contact

Morocco / France / Belgium
2020, 120 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2021

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

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
   
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

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