As his new feature hits cinemas, British-Moroccan director Fyzal Boulifa talks about why the idea that you can only write about your own experience is “a bit of a trap”
I think it’s an unpleasant irony of the situation we’re in: we do have more diverse people who are able to make films, but what they’re able to say is actually becoming more narrow.there was very much this feeling of, “Why has he made a film about two white women in Essex?” There was this weird undercurrent. I also think it’s testament to the fact that class is still the real taboo
AD: Fatima-Zahra is someone who’s spent her life trying to break free of Moroccan society, without ever succeeding. What were your inspirations for the character? And actually she is typical of a lot of Moroccan women of that class in that her dream is to get married. I feel like it’s very incongruous when you see a film from this part of the world and, and …FB: Absolutely. Often there’s an idea in those films that everyone is a Western subject waiting to be liberated. [My film is] a bit more complicated than that, hopefully.AD: What about Selim? I guess on the face of it you might say he’s a closeted gay young man.
AD: I was surprised when I learned you had used non-professional actors for the lead roles in the film. Aicha Tebbae has such an old-world glamour about her.
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