{"id":9073,"date":"2026-03-27T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/program\/behind-the-palm-trees\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:54:13","slug":"behind-the-palm-trees","status":"publish","type":"nor-film","link":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/program\/behind-the-palm-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Palm Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>A romance, carried by the sweet promise of new beginnings, unfolds between Mehdi (Driss Ramdi), who works with his father renovating houses, and Selma (Nadia Kounda), a young woman working in a bakery. But when Marie (Sara Giraudeau), the French daughter of a family that has moved to Marrakesh, enters the picture, things seem destined to end in tragedy. A poignant portrait of a love triangle, thoroughly entangled with the afterlives of colonialism, the fractures of masculinity, and the harsh realities of contemporary Moroccan society strained under the weight of social and economic injustice.<\/p>\n<p>The second feature film by Moroccan filmmaker Meryem Benm\u2019Barek, following her highly acclaimed Sofia (2018), premiered at the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2026. (IA)<\/p>\n<p>Followed by a talk with the filmmaker<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ffm-excerpt-screenings\">&gt; Thursday 23.4.2026 | 19:00 | Sputnik<br \/>&gt;&gt; Tuesday 28.4.2026 | 21:30 | City Kino Wedding<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"nor-film_cat":[],"class_list":["post-9073","nor-film","type-nor-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nor-film\/9073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nor-film"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nor-film"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"nor-film_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfilm.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nor-film_cat?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}