Urgent

Directed by Mohcine Besri

Fiction | 2018 | 85 min

With Rachid Mustapha, Fatima Zahra Benacer, Youssef Alaoui, Saïd Bey, Ghalia Ben Zaouia, Ayoub Layoussifi, Younes Bouab

Producers : Elisa Garbar, Lamia Chraibi

Produced by Louise Productions Lausanne & La Prod

International Sales : Orange Studios


Synopsis

Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room of the Casablanca's public hospital. There they meet Driss' brother, Houcine, with whom they have been in conflict for years. The doctor diagnoses a brain problem requiring immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful journey exhausting each one. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub’s life?

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Credits

A film by : Mohcine Besri

Written by : Mohcine Besri & Cécile Vargaftig    

Produced by : Louise Productions Lausanne (Switzerland) & La Prod (Morocco)

Coproducers : 

Louise Productions Lausanne (Switzerland) : Elisa Garbar

La Prod (Morocco) : Lamia Chraibi, Michel Merkt                     

Director of Photography : Denis Jutzeler

Art director : Armelle Demange

Costume designer : Assia Ismaili

Make-up artist : Zhor Bennami

Editor : Naïma Bachiri

Sound engineer : Marianne Roussy

Co-produced by : RTS Radio Télévision Suisse & SRG SSR

With the support of : Office Fédéral de la Culture / Cinéforom / Loterie Romande / Fonds Culturel Suissimage / Centre Cinématographique Marocain / Dubai Film Market / Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

International Sales : Orange Studio

Festivals & Screenings

We are pleased to announce that the film Une Urgence Ordinaire will be in Previews, in the presence of the director Mohcine Besri to discuss with the audience, in the following cinemas :

Lausanne Zinema
Thursday 25 August at 21:00

Genève CDD
Friday 26 August at 21:00

Ste Croix ROYAL
Saturday 27 August at 18:00

Fribourg REX
Sunday 28 August at 11:00

Released on 24 August in cinemas at Cinema d’Oron, Minimum Neuchatel, Zinema, CDD, Royal st Croix, Rex Fribourg

Une Urgence Ordinaire will be broadcast on Tuesday 22 August 2023 at 10.45pm on RTS2.

Festivals

Tübingen/Stuttgart, 36. Französische Filmtage Tübingen
30.10.2019 – 06.11.2019

Montpellier, 41e Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier
18.10.2019 – 26.10.2019

Seattle, 45th Seattle International Film Festival
16.05.2019 – 09.06.2019

Solothurn, 54. Solothurner Filmtage
24.01.2019 – 31.01.2019

Busan, 23rd Busan International Film Festival
04.10.2018 – 13.10.2018

Press

La Liberté, “Le Maroc aux soins intensifs”, Olivier Wyser, 17 août 2022.

Le Temps, Une Urgence ordinaire au chevet du Maroc”, Stéphane Gobbo, 24 août 2022.

Tribune de Genève, Une Urgence ordinaire : Hôpital et choral”, PGA, 24 août 2022.