Achoura (2020)
Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
- Date of release
- 2020-06-26
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (26)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
- Director
- Talal Selhami
Casting
- Sofiia Manousha — Nadia
- Younes Bouab — Ali
- Omar Lotfi — Samir
- Iván González — Stéphane
- Moussa Maaskri — Le Gardien
- Mohamed Choubi — Commissaire Majd
- Jade Beloued — Nadia enfant
- Abdellah El Yousfi — Ali enfant
- Gabriel Fracola — Stéphane enfant
- Noé Lahlou — Samir enfant
- Gad Lahlou — Le Gardian enfant
- Celine Hugo — Bashira
Interesting facts
Achoura is a 2018 Moroccan-French horror fantasy film directed and co-written by Talal Selhami. Moroccan actors Omar Lotfi and Younes Bouab star alongside Sofia Manousha, Ivan Gonzalez, Mohamed Choubi, and Moussa Masskri. The film's plot follows four childhood friends who reconnect when one of them, who disappeared 25 years prior during the Ashura holiday, re-enters their lives, leading them to confront a monstrous djinn. The film is regarded as the first Moroccan fantasy film.
Production
Filming took place in Morocco, around Casablanca, in 2015. Producer Fabrice Lambot described the film as "the first monster movie shot in Morocco."
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