"Kamal Lazraq’s first feature is a trim, unsparing crime tale that pits social desperation against a nagging spiritual conscience."

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Kamal Lazraq
  • Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2023
  • 94 minutes
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In the mean streets of Casablanca, Hassan and Issam, father and son, will do whatever it takes to survive, even if it means carrying out small trafficking jobs for the local mafia. One evening, they are tasked with kidnapping a man. Trapped in a long, chaotic, dangerous night, they have no idea what awaits them…

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes this year, Hounds is a gritty crime thriller that walks its characters on a knife edge between life and death, right and wrong, reality and and spirituality.

“There's barely a second of slack in a film whose power comes at least in part from the natural performances by non-professional actors Ayoub Elaid as the son and Abdellatif Masstouri - who was apparently running a grilled sardine stall when the director approached him – as his wayward father” - Screen.

Feature Debut

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  • Director Kamal Lazraq
  • Production Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
  • Script Kamal Lazraq
  • Cinematography Amine Berrada
  • Editing Héloïse Pelloquet, Stéphane Myczkowski
  • Festivals Cannes (Un Certain Regard Jury Prize)
  • Actors Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri, Mohamed Hmimsa, Abdellah Lebkiri
  • Source Lev Cinema