Leur Nuit

Narrimane Yamna Faqir | Fiction | 23 min | Morocco | 2013 |  Arabic with English subtitles

To sustain herself and her child, a Moroccan woman works night shifts as a street parking attendant. What realities, people and incidents dies she encount?

Rkia is a forty-year-old Moroccan woman. Those who know her like to call her “Kiki”. To support herself and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Rkia works regular night shifts as a parking attendant in a small street in Casablanca: Between six in the evening and six in the morning she surveys the comings, goings and the parking of cars. In the course of the night, she meets different kinds of people, deals with incidents as they come her way, and talks on the phone to her daughter who is left at home alone.