Ahmed Bouanani’s Al-Manabe' al-Arba'a (1974), a very low-budget fantastical adaption of a poetic fable, features his wife Naïma Saoudi, who also worked as an art director and set designer. It is his only film in colour, which convinced him that his vocation was to work in black and white.
Ahmed Bouanani
Writer, Director
Cairo Time59%
Mr. Morgan's Last Love65%
Arabian Nights60%
A Dry White Season67%
Framed65%
Promises75%
The New Janitor62%
The Attack68%
Iverson70%
Ram Dass, Going Home58%
Royal New Year's Eve61%
Recount67%
The Safety of Objects65%
The Boat65%
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge63%
Finders Keepers65%
The Paradine Case62%
A Day's Pleasure62%
King of the Belgians60%