Queens (سلطانات)
Qumra Projects
/ Feature Narrative / Morocco, France, Qatar
In Darija
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Synopsis
Casablanca, Morocco.
27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that her fanciful and wild eight-year-old daughter, Inès, has been expelled from school and sent to a children's home, she escapes from prison, kidnaps her daughter, and heads south. On the road, she holds up a truck driven by the young Asma, and takes her hostage.
Zineb is loud-spoken and unpredictable. Asma, on the other hand, is quiet and hardened to life. They appear to have nothing in common, but the fate of Inès brings them together in a mission to offer the child a future. The trio soon has the police on their tail, thus starting a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.
'Queens' is an escape and adventure film, but as the story develops, it adopts another identity—one of a fable. Little Inès is sure she is there to fulfil a prophecy, that of the Queen of the Jinns.