Animalia

Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Festival, French-Moroccan writer-director Sofia Alaoui's sci-fi drama ANIMALIA follows the heavily pregnant Itto, who comes from a Berber family. When she is separated from her new husband Amine, from a middle-class family, while a mysterious supernatural catastrophe occurs just outside their country home, Itto begins a journey through a wrecked Morocco that proves to be a path to inner liberation...  (fw)