Ouarzazate, Morocco, where Hollywood builds its glory on the backs of local workers. From Kundun and Asterix to Gladiator, passing through every historical epic and the thousand-and-one versions of the Bible, the city’s residents all work as extras in films they will likely never have the chance to watch. araBehind the shine of these massive productions stand those actors, with their hopes and disappointments, living witnesses to the stark contradiction between the power of commercial cinema and the economic misery it is built upon.
Ali Essafi
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
Elstree 197661%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
A Plastic Ocean75%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
APEX: The Story of the Hypercar65%
180° South72%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
The Matrix Revisited68%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
The Captains63%
Directed by John Ford70%
Voyeur59%
Above Majestic73%
Sherman's March67%
Sidney70%
