Kilikis: The Town of Owls

At a glance

Kilikis: The Town of Owls, is a 2018 Moroccan movie, directed by Azlarabe Alaoui Lamharzi, and starring Amine Ennaji, Hassan Ben Badida, Kamal Kadimi. with a runtime of 94 minutes.

Overview

Kilikis: The Town of Owls is a documentary exploring a remote residential community nestled in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, built to house the families and guards of a secret political detention camp that remained hidden from official history until the early 1990s. The guards' daily lives oscillate between the isolated village and the fortress prison, connected by a precarious suspension bridge spanning a deep valley. The film examines the psychological and social reality of those who lived in the shadow of state repression during Morocco's notorious "Years of Lead" — a community suspended between complicity and survival, loyalty and silence.

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