The director wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She creates a gorgeous, handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood, where she grew up, with intricate stop-motion puppets. There, she begins to interrogate the mystery - listening to her mother, father and grandmother. Slowly, she unravels layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life, stemming from this one remaining photograph of the Bread Riots in 1981. El Moudir won Un Certain Regard at Cannes with this film.

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