Arabic film festival - Burns out

The interconnected destinies of three disparate characters in the Moroccan metropolis of Casablanca are explored in Nour Eddine Lakhmari’s gripping drama. Ayoub (El Jihani Ilyas) is a thirteen-year-old shoe-shine boy who dreams of buying a prosthesis for his one-legged mother; Jad (Anas El Baz), a forty-year-old entrepreneur wants to free himself from the obsessions of his late father; Aida (Sarah Perles), a twenty-five-year old hospital intern is leading a dangerous double life as an escort for wealthy clients. In their own ways, these three fragile characters confront their loneliness, misery, fears and hopes.