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After a break-up, Mo Bensalah, a painter, throws himself body and soul into his art. Built like a pictorial and sensory puzzle, 'My Brother' is the portrait of an artist held captive between France and Morocco, set to the throbbing rhythms of Gnawa music.
An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence through his creative craft; a journey into his paintings. His internal voice and his feelings guide us to the heart of his identity crisis; his personal story is revealed to us step by step. ‘My Brother’ is a film about the internal struggles and complexity of being at once French, Arab and Muslim today.

Credits

Director
Kamal El Mahouti
Screenwriter
Kamal El Mahouti, Emma Raguin
Producer
Kamal El Mahouti
Cast
Zakaria El Ahmadi, Lahcen El Mahouti, Fatima El Mahouti, Emma Raguin

About the Director

Kamal El Mahouti
Kamal El Mahouti is a French writer and director of Moroccan descent. Born in Casablanca in 1963, he moved to France at the age of six, and studied film at the University of Paris VIII. In 2001, El Mahouti directed ‘My Lost Home’, which screened at the Exodes de l’Écran Festival in Saint-Denis, France, and the Arab Film Biennale at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. He has also directed six ori
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