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International Short Film Competition

Amid shuttered pits and precarious shafts, a community restages their daily labour, transforming risk into testimony and a set into an archive of work, memory and dignity.
Shot in collaboration with Jerada’s inhabitants, this carefully constructed set invites miners to re-enact their routines, from the fragile descent to the measured sharing of tools and time. What emerges is an archive of Jerada, stories etched in coal dust and the echo of industrial architecture, where labour continues despite official closure in 2001. By letting people play themselves, the film restores context and care, mapping the choreography of survival and the quiet solidarities that hold a community together.

Credits

Director
Randa Maroufi
Producer
Randa Maroufi, Oumayma Zekri Ajarrai
Co-Producer
Tifaw Films, Fondazione In Between Art Films
Cinematographer
Luca Coassin CCS
Editor
Céline Perréard, Randa Maroufi
Production Company
Shatamata Production
Distributor
Square Eyes
Sound
Sara Kaddouri, Toni Geitani, Randa Maroufi
Cast
Céline Perréard
Randa Maroufi
The inhabitants of Jerada city

About the Director

Randa Maroufi
Born in 1987 in Casablanca, Randa Maroufi is a visual artist and filmmaker. She studied at the Institut National des Beaux-Arts (Tétouan), École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers and Le Fresnoy. A fellow of the Académie de France à Madrid (2018) and the Villa Médicis (2025), her award-winning films ‘Le Park’ (2015) and ‘Bab Sebta’ (2019) began a trilogy on Moroccan cities, completed by ‘L’mina’ (