Ali Zaoua

Ali Zaoua Prince of the Streets is a 2000 Moroccan crime drama film that tells the story of several homeless boys living in Casablanca. It was awarded in the 2000 Stockholm Film Festival and in the 2000 Amiens International Film Festival.

Ali Zaoua is a Moroccan film which reflects the beliefs of the people that how they are sticking with their faith blindly based on their preconception. The conception is just fake idea but believed to be as reality. The film has been described as magical realism, in the sense of how the stark reality of the childrens lives interweaves with their rich fantasy life. The contrast between real life and fantasy life shows the strong part of their beliefs. In their feeling and practice they are very different from each other. In this film Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Ali wants to become a sailor when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dibs gang. Matters are getting serious the four kids separated themselves from Dibs gang. As a result, Ali Zaoua is killed by Dibs gang when he is hit by a stone. Omar and Baker wanted to bury him as king but circumstances do not support them.

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