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


In Theaters

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.

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