5 Dirhams per head

Salah has always been a shepherd. His parents decided this from his early age. Constantly in transhumance in the mountains and plains of the Moroccan Atlas with his family, it is today his children who take care of the herd, because "it's their life that wants that", while waiting for an uncertain future.

  • Paola Rima Melis
    Director
  • Myriam Laalej
    Director
  • Paola Rima Melis
    Producer
  • Myriam Laalej
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 30, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Morocco
  • Country of Filming:
    Morocco
  • Language:
    Arabic
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fidadoc
    Agadir
    Morocco
  • Latin arab Festival
    Buenos aire
    Argentina
    special jury mention
  • Festival des cinémas d'Afrique d'Apt
    Apt
    France
    special mention
  • Festival du film arabe de Fameck
    Fameck
    France
    special mention
Distribution Information
  • Paola Rima Melis
    Country: France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Paola Rima Melis , Myriam Laalej

In 2009 Paola Rima Melis graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual by the University of Bordeaux after spending a year at the University of Santa Barbara in California, where she participated in several projects of short films. She then moved to Paris to do her Master Didactics of Image, which she obtained after spending few months in Benin as part of the Ouidah International Film Festival and traveling screenings in villages and camps. of Ogonis refugees. Since 2013 she has been teaching film to children through Silhouette Association, in schools and with young people in priority neighborhoods, and continues to develop her documentary and fiction film projects.

After validating her Law Degree at the University of Burgundy, Myriam Laalej goes to England to do her Masters in International Law at the University of Manchester.
Back in France, she decided to go to a journalism school to report and share her vision of the world. After working two years for a French production company "Ligne de Front" as an assistant director of Géraud Burin des Roziers, she went to make a documentary film in Colombia about a group of indigenous "Retrato de una resistencia indigena". It is then in Morocco that she leaves to direct her second documentary: "5 dirhams per head".

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