Hadamo

When director Asmae El Moudir finds an old postcard among her mother's things, she doesn't know that she is unearthing an exceptional story. The image depicts Zawia, a small village in the mountains of Morocco, where her mother was born and which she left to never return. The director then decides to leave for this remote and country, so foreign to her. In Zawia, where time seems to have stopped, the woman embarks on a search through her mother's past, getting in tune with the women and girls of the village. The more El Moudir deepens gets to know them and associates with their families, the more she realizes how different her life would be if her mother hadn't left Zawia. What began as an intimate and personal journey is transformed into a universal story of emancipation, migration, and belonging.