A former communist leader and activist for Moroccan independence, Edmond Amran Elmaleh left behind a vast body of literary work that masterfully articulates personal and collective memory. This cinematic letter, addressed to Elmaleh by director Simone Bitton, weaves together excerpts from the writer’s texts, testimonies, and archival images, and the filmmaker’s own words to illustrate the memory of a captivating and erudite man haunted by the parallel tragedies of the departure of Jews from Morocco and the exodus of Palestinians uprooted from their land.
Simone Bitton
Director, Writer
12 jours71%
Public Speaking70%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Night Will Fall76%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Sherman's March67%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Love, Antosha74%
The Carter Effect70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sidney70%
Being James Bond77%
Love, Marilyn66%
Varda par Agnès78%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
