Thursday is premiere day and this week  premieres ADAM, Maryam Touzani's first feature film. One of the most relevant voices in the cinematographic panorama of Morocco.

The film is on display at Cinema Medeia Nimas (Lisbon), UCI El Corte Inglés (Lisbon) and Cinema Charlot (Setúbal).

Presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, ADAM tells the story of two women, Samia and Abla, a young pregnant woman and a widow with a daughter, who see their lives converge in a society where being a woman is in itself a challenge. In the director's words, ADAM (2019) had the ambition of “giving women a voice, filming their human and social condition.”

Abla is a widowed woman who lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda, in a modest home in Casablanca. From home, Abla runs a small bakery. Their routine, which varies between domestic chores, chores in the bakery and school work, is interrupted when Samia, a single and pregnant young woman, knocks on their door. Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever as she converges with Samia's. A moving, fascinating and urgent story of female friendship and emancipation.

Special screening: the screening on Monday, August 24th, will have as guests Teresa Vieira (journalist and film critic) and an activist of the Feminist Assembly of Lisbon, for a conversation with the audience after the film.

«A vibrant and intimate fresco» Vanity Fair

«Poignant and engaging… The beautiful story of two women who transform each other's lives, ADAM, Maryam Touzani's debut feature film, is a clever addition to the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. With great delicacy, Touzani shows how Moroccan society censors a woman who gives birth outside of marriage. Lubna Azabal and Nisrin Erradi's performances are superb and heartbreaking.» The Hollywood Reporter