Winner of the award for Best Screenplay in the 'Un Certain Regard’ at Cannes, ‘Sofia’ It is the first feature film of Moroccan director Meryem Ben M'barek, She grew up between Belgium and France.

We see it in the 'Cupid and Psyche’ the official competition of the 24th edition of the festival in Rome Medfilm.

The film is about the difficulties of a young Moroccan twenty years got pregnant out of wedlock.

Sofia lives with her family in Casablanca, his is a denied pregnancy that will bring it to bear a child out of wedlock, and for this to go to jail, as the applicable law commands. The hospital will give the only 24 hours to provide the identity and the documents of the child parde before you alert the authorities.

In Morocco it was the single mother is statistically very high, This is why the theme of the film is at the center of a deeply felt social debate. The hope of the director is that the debate will lead to a gradual evolution of the law and the current mindset and to spread the film through other channels, for example, TV, allowing access into the lower social strata of Muslim society where women's status is still strongly influenced. But here we also speak of the internal balance of power to families, their tacit hypocrisy, Circular role that sometimes take on the victims and their executioners and all the pragmatic and psychological aspects of the situation, that the director just 80 minutes manages to condense very well.

Corinne Quadarella