Ali Zaoua

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets is a 2000 Moroccan crime drama film that tells the story of several homeless boys. It was awarded in the 2000 Stockholm Film Festival and in the 2000 Amiens International Film Festival.

Plot

Kwita (Maunim Kbab), Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussaune) and Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) are homeless boys living in Casablanca. The boys were in a gang led by Dib (Said Taghmaoui), but decide to rebel against him under Ali's guidance. However, Ali is killed by members of the gang while he is hired as a cabin boy on a ship, and the other boys decide to give him a proper funeral. Kwita sits in a cemetery where his lack of religious training is criticized^{[clarification needed]}, while Omar briefly returns to Dib's gang. Boubker, the smallest and most vulnerable of the boys, threatens to kill himself but recovers his sense of self and helps the old fisherman on his boat.

Awards

• Bronze Horse, 2000 Stockholm Film Festival
• Audience Award, 2000 Amiens International Film Festival
• The Golden Crow Pheasant Award (Suvarnachakoram) for best film in 6th IFFK (International Film festival of Kerala) 2001 held at Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala.

Reflection 3: by advocate taj muhamad Importance and role of rituals depicted in Ali Zoua film Ali Zhou is a Moroccan Film which reflects the beliefs of the people that how they are sticking with their faith blindly based on their pre-conception. The conception is just fake idea but believed to be as reality. The film has been described as magical realism. It is magical in the sense that how does the stark reality of the children’s lives interweave with their rich fantasy life. The contrast between real life and fantasy life shows the strong part of their beliefs. In their feeling and practice they are very much different with each other. In this film Ali, Kwita, Omar and Baker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dip’s gang. Matters are getting serious; the three kids separated themselves from Dip’s gang. As a result, Ali Zoua killed by Dip’s gang when he was hit by a stone. Omar and Baker wanted to bury him as king but circumstances do not support them.

External links

• Official film link
• Ali Zaoua at the Internet Movie Database
• Ali Zaoua at AllRovi

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