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CALLE MÁLAGA Morocco-France-Spain-Germany-Belgium, 2025, 116 min, color

María Ángeles is a fiercely independent senior living in the Spanish quarter of Tangier. When her daughter Clara arrives for a long-overdue visit, she comes with an agenda: to pressure María into selling the home –  left in Clara’s name by her late father – to offset her own post-divorce financial struggles. But María, deeply embedded in her community and cherished by her neighbours, quietly resolves to stay.

 

Determined not to be displaced, she devises a resourceful plan to earn enough money to keep the apartment and buy back the cherished belongings her daughter hastily sold to an antique dealer in preparation for the sale of the property. In the process, María unexpectedly finds a romantic spark with someone she once viewed as an adversary.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Venice ’25 - Audience Award - Armani Beauty (Orizzonti Extra)

Maryam Touzani

Maryam Touzani

Born in 1980 in Tangier, Morocco, Maryam Touzani is a renowned screenwriter, director, and actress celebrated for intimate, humanistic films often exploring social issues and complex characters. After studying journalism in London, she began as a film critic before writing acclaimed shorts and feature films, including Adam (2019) and The Blue Caftan (2022).

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2012 When They Slept / short

2015 Aya Goes to the Beach / short

2019 Adam

2022 The Blue Caftan

2025 Calle Málaga

DIRECTOR
Maryam Touzani
SCRIPT
Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch
CAMERA
Virginie Surdej
MUSIC
Freya Arde
CAST
Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, María Alfonsa Rosso
PRODUCERS
Nabil Ayouch, Amine Benjelloun, Jean-Remi Ducourtioux, Simón De Santiago, Fernando Bovaira, Fred Burle, Sol Bondy, Sebastian Schelenz
PRODUCTION
Les Films du Nouveau Monde, Mod Producciones, ONE TWO Films, Velvet Films, Ali n' Productions

CALLE MÁLAGA Morocco-France-Spain-Germany-Belgium, 2025, 116 min, color

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