On the Edge is a hard-hitting and energetic film noir from the Moroccan newcomer Leila Kilani. Watch the movie and meet the director Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. at Filmens hus.
Leila Kilani was born in 1970 and has worked as a journalist most of her life. She began working with documentary films at the end of the 1990s, and made documentaries like Tanger, le Rêve des brûleurs (2003).
– It's an exciting period for film in the Middle East, Kilani has said in a previous interview.
– This is linked with a new consciousness in public institutions which recognises that cinema is a very powerful media and can build a new image of the Arab world.
On the Edge was screened at this year’s festival in Cannes, and has also won awards for best film, best director and best actress at the Sicilian film festival Taormina in 2010.
Kilani’s film is set in Tangier in Morocco. Here, it’s not who you are that matters, it’s where you work. With a work permit to the Free Zone, you’ll have all the opportunities in the world, but without this key you cannot even step inside the zone. Badia and Imane work in a shrimp-processing factory in a poor part of the city. When they befriend Asma and Nawal, two women who work in the Free Zone, the world seems to be theirs for the taking. They soon delve into a life of petty crime in Tangier's old town during night. The four protagonists are standing on the edge ready to jump, but without any plans as for where they will land.
On the Edge is a must see at this year’s festival, and tonight you get the opportunity to meet the director of this hard-hitting thriller from Morocco.
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