Browse 11 movies from Les Films du Nouveau Monde
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
Feb 2023
An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.
Oct 2025
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
Jan 1975
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.
Oct 2019
Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.
Dec 2024
When a rapper-turned-teacher brings hip-hop to a community center in an impoverished area of Casablanca, his tough methods spark an explosion of talent.
Nov 2021
The story follows two women who travel to Morocco to adopt a baby, leading to an emotional journey of motherhood and human connection.
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A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
Jun 2015
A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Dec 2007
A bank clerk is driven by his brother-in-law in many adventures.
Sep 1973
When his father Omar, a French architect of Moroccan origin, dies suddenly, 25-year-old Neil finds himself at the center of a family conflict. Neil’s mother, Omar's wife of 25 years, wants to cremate him in order to honor their shared secular values. But Omar's family—his mother, brother, and sister, who have come from the south of France—demand a burial according to Islamic rites. Caught between two conflicting accounts of the man who was his father, Neil is torn. As the funeral stalls, lies accumulate, and the conflict culminates in court, Neil tries to understand who his father was. Earth and Ashes explores grief disrupted by identity tensions in a society that fuels division.