L’mina

Filmstill L’mina

L’mina

L’mina
Randa Maroufi
International Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
France,
Morocco,
Italy,
Qatar
2025
26 minutes
Arabic
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

The landscape presented by Randa Maroufi in the final part of her trilogy about Moroccan cities seems unreal. This is Jerada, where a coal mine once attracted numerous workers to the region. And even though the mine closed in 2001, mining is still going on – secretly and under dangerous conditions. Maroufi interweaves Super8 images of the miners and their families with 3D scans of the area. But the most impressive parts are her re-stagings of the processes and threats featuring the workers of Jerada themselves: In long shots, taken both above and below ground, hard work becomes visible: physical, persistent, carried out with the simplest of tools. Hands with shovels fill coal sacks and load them onto a converted motorbike, a few metres below men crawl through narrow shafts that can collapse any moment. In conjunction with a sophisticated sound backdrop, “L’mina” evokes an almost surreal place. At the same time, documentary images remind us that this mining area is not a walk-in diorama but reality. As Maroufi emphatically puts it in her dedication at the end: “For those who live in the shadows to enlighten us.”


Carolin Weidner

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Director
Randa Maroufi
Script
Randa Maroufi
Cinematographer
Luca Coassin CCS
Editor
Céline Perréard, Randa Maroufi
Producer
Randa Maroufi, Oumayma Zekri Ajarrai
Co-Producer
Oumayma Zekri Ajarrai
Sound
Sara Kaddouri, Toni Geitani, Randa Maroufi

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