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Director Nabil Ayouch on the 7-Minute Single Shot in His Moroccan Oscar Entry, ‘Everybody Loves Touda’
Nabil Ayouch discusses "Everybody Loves Touda" which premiered at Cannes and is eligible in all categories at the Oscars where it represents Morocco.
“Everybody Loves Touda,” penned by Ayouch and his wife, the actor-turned-filmmaker Maryam Touzani(“The Blue Caftan”), tells the story a young poetess and singer known as a Shaeirat (Nisrin Erradi), who raises her deaf-mute son in a small Moroccan village. Erradi, who previously starred in Touzani’s feature debut, “Adam,” prepared for the part in “Everybody Loves Touda” for a year and a half and was “coached by three Shaeirats to learn how to sing, dance, talk and move so that she would be credible,” says Ayouch, who lives between Paris and Casablanca. In order to pull it off, Ayouch filmed with a green background and enlisted Copenhagen-based drone operator Tao Ahler, alongside an international key crew that included Virginie Surdej, a Belgian cinematographer who is an AMPAS voter.
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