We sit down with Sofia Alaoui to explore how her curiosity about faith, mythology and the unknown shaped ’Animalia’ into a ...

Writer-director Sofia Alaoui follows up her Sundance-winning short with this genre-bending tale of an unidentified meteorological phenomenon that upends the life of a pregnant woman. By Jordan Mintzer ...

Born to a French mother, a Moroccan father and raised for some years in China, filmmaker Sofia Alaoui grants that her upbringing had a more international expanse than most. The same could be said for ...

A young pregnant Amazigh woman finds herself alone during a supernatural event in Sofia Alaoui’s philosophical exploration of Moroccan class divides.

Oumaima Barid stars in the movie, which premiered at Sundance, where it won a special jury prize for creative vision. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The deal was negotiated by Isra Al Kassi of ...

A careful camera takes note of the placid symmetries of a gated house in a desert location. A fountain flows in the courtyard. A chandelier hangs in the hallway. Rococo chairs share plush rooms with ...

Sofia Alaoui tells us about her enigmatic first feature, in which a pregnant woman’s journey across Morocco becomes a meditation on class, belonging and the mysteries of existence, as strange cosmic ...