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Crossing the Seventh Gate
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عبور الباب السابع · 2017

Crossing the Seventh Gate

Ali Essafi · 80 min · Morocco

Documentary

Ali Essafi visited Bouanani three years before the latter’s death. The filmmaker, poet and novelist who also made drawings was leading a reclusive life in a remote village with his wife Naïma and many cats, living in the midst of huge piles of books and manuscripts.

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