‘Everybody Loves Touda’ Director Nabil Ayouch on How the Film Depicts a Moroccan Female Poet and Singer as an ‘Agent of Resistance’

French-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch is in Cannes for the third time with “Everybody Loves Touda,” launching out of competition. The film tells the story of a young poet and singer steeped in an ancient Moroccan form of folk song called aita, but forced to perform trashy pop songs in bars filled with abusive men. Below, Ayouch speaks with Variety […]
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