That day, Asmae El Moudir was only 12 years old but she kept very clear memories of it.
She wore an oversized dress borrowed from her sister, had put on lipstick that spilled over her lips and a touch of toothpaste on her forehead,
“to do like Indian women”
.
Arriving at the photographer's office, she chose to pose in front of the Hawaii background, the most popular among all clients at the time.
Sweaty but radiant:
“I finally had a real photo of myself.”
At his height as a child, the event is significant because, in his family, photographs have long been banned and a taboo subject.
Twenty years later, the Moroccan filmmaker decided to question this absence in
The Mother of All Lies
, a magnificent documentary on the lies and secrets of her childhood linked to other more collective secrets, buried in the history of his country.
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In the absence of preserved family images, she will reinvent them herself.
With her father, a former mason, she made a miniature model…
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