Maryam Hassouni, Soundos El Ahmadi, Bilal Wahib and Nasrdin Dchar star in the comedy Meskina. The film will premiere on January 21, 2021 and is the feature film debut of director Daria Bukvic.
The story of Meskina is described as a ‘modern fairytale’. The film centers on the thirty-something Leyla (Hassouni, known for Eyeballs in Dunya & Desie), who has no husband, child and clear career path and is therefore labeled as meskina (Arabic for pathetic).
Leyla wants to find out who she is and what makes her happy, despite the expectations associated with the ideal image of a family, love and work.
Bukvic previously made the performance Milk & Dates about the lives of four Moroccan-Dutch actresses. “The energy and girl power that of Milk & Dates I take it with you Meskina in order to inspire an even larger audience with stories about the woman of today, “says the director.” The Netherlands is ready for Meskina. “
Actress El Ahmadi told already have a role in a “Bridget Jones goes Sex and the City-like comedy “. Her Moroccan-Dutch ethnicity is positively central to the film, El Ahmadi emphasized in JAN. “We are not ‘excuse Moroccans’, not a revenue model for columnists or other frustrated, shortsighted old white men. No, we carry the film, the film revolves around us. About our life.”
The filming of the film starts in mid-August.
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