Gregoire Melin’s Kinology, the banner behind “Annette,” has boarded “Queens,” Yasmine Benkiran’s feature debut, which will make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.The uplifting Moroccan movie will unspool on closing night of Critics Week.
Kinology represents the film in international markets.The sprawling, colorful adventure film opens in Casablanca, where a trio of rebellious female outlaws – a mother, her daughter and a young girl – drive through the Atlas desert to reach the Atlantic coast with local police forces on their trail.Benkiran said her film “celebrates freedom and the power of imagination,” as well as conveying the need for women to free themselves from patriarchal traditions in contemporary Moroccan society.The up-and-coming French-Moroccan director said she aspired to make a film with depth that blended genre with local mythology to tell this story.Benkiran said she grew up in Morocco, where she would only get
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