Everybody Loves Touda

Everybody Loves Touda (2024)

في حب تودا

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.

Date of release
2024-12-18
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Nabil Ayouch

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $2M
  • Filmed in: Casablanca and Tadla-Azilal

Everybody Loves Touda is a 2024 drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch, co-written with Maryam Touzani. A co-production of Morocco, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway, it stars Nisrin Erradi as a young singer who dreams of becoming a traditional Moroccan folk singer and moving to Casablanca for greater recognition and a better life for her son.

Production

Nabil Ayouch wrote the film's screenplay with the collaboration of filmmaker and actress Maryam Touzani, who is also his wife. In preparation for her role, Nisrin Erradi trained with professional Sheikhats for a year and a half. She learned to sing, play percussion, dance and speak as they do. Erradi turned down several roles in between shooting to devote herself to the role of Touda.

Everybody Loves Touda was produced by Nabil Ayouch and Amine Benjelloun for the Moroccan company Ali n' Productions along with French company Les Films du Nouveau Monde, in co-production with Velvet Films (Belgium), Snowglobe (Denmark), Viking Film (Netherlands), Staer (Norway), France 3 Cinéma and RTBF (Télévision Belge).

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