(Gardens of Fez)

Content: The narrow streets of the old city of Fez wind around walled houses, crumbling palaces and quiet courtyards. Rajae, a schoolteacher, reminisces about the gardens and streams–places once alive with mystery and discovery–that have now fallen into neglect or vanished entirely. As architect Rachid Haloui uncovers the hidden network of waterways and springs that shaped Fez, Rajae sets out to develop a play, determined to revive these stories. On a rooftop, the rehearsal begins. Elsewhere in the city, a poet recalls an old verse, a gardener tends one of the last remaining plots, and a dancer encounters the spirit of water. Their stories, rituals and songs, as well as the daily care of the city’s fountains and parks, reveal Fez as a city at a threshold–where memory and imagination resist dissapearance, and remain deeply intertwined with everyday life.

Countries:

Netherlands

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

50 minutes

Year:

2026

Directors:

Heidi Vogels

Production companies:

Otherwise film (NL),

near/by film

Actors:

Rajae Drissi

Rachid Haloui

Camilea El Hakem

Mohammed El Hadri

Hassan Saghrousni

Crews:

Director of Photography

Editor

Sound Designer

Sound

Sound