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''Mektoub'' is a 1997 French-Moroccan
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have been screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early li ...
. The film was selected as the Moroccan entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Bes ...
at the
71st Academy Awards The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p. ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Cast

* Rachid El Ouali as Dr. Taoufik Raoui *
Faouzi Bensaïdi Faouzi Bensaïdi (; born 14 March 1967) is a Moroccan film director, actor, screenwriter and artist. His film '' A Thousand Months'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 and 2009 he has taken p ...
as Kamel Raoui * Amal Chabli as Sophia Raoui *
Mohammed Miftah Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
as Inspector Kabir *
Malika Oufkir Malika Oufkir () (born April 2, 1953) is a Moroccan Berber writer and former victim of enforced disappearance. She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. Biography Malika Ouf ...
as The Village Chief


See also

*
List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
*
List of Moroccan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Kingdom of Morocco has submitted films intermittently for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1977. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length ...


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* 1997 films 1997 drama films French drama films Moroccan drama films 1990s Arabic-language films Films directed by Nabil Ayouch Films produced by Étienne Comar 1990s French films Arabic-language drama films {{1990s-drama-film-stub