'The Wound'

Source: Mediterrane Film Festival

‘The Wound’

Casablanca-based production company Pink Sheep Productions, whose drama The Wound screened in competition at the Mediterrane film festival last week, has revealed details of two upcoming features.

Pink Sheep was set up by Seloua El Gouni and Taha Benghalem three years ago, and works as a service outfit while also developing its own in-house features.  

The next project expected to shoot is political thriller, The Red Tarboosh, which Benghalem is set to direct with El Gouni as producer.

“Our intention is for it to be shot in Morocco and Malta,” Benghalem explained. The plan is to use both the 30% Moroccan incentive and the 40% Maltese equivalent, and potentially to open a Pink Sheep office in Malta.

Then, the company will move onto a second new feature, The Berber Queen, which Benghalem has scripted.

El Gouni previously worked as a production manager on international films shooting in Morocco including A Hologram For The King (2016) starring Tom Hanks, while Benghalem worked as general manager at Morocco’s Atlas Studios.

The Wound, which is El Gouni’s directorial debut, is about a young unmarried Moroccan woman (Oumaïma Bari) from a traditional family background who is pushed into a tragic situation when she becomes pregnant following an affair with her boss (Brice Bexter El Glaoui) at a tele-marketing company. Her conservative father turns against her. Both lead actors were selected as Screen International Arab Stars Of Tomorrow.

“What we try to do is raise the question mark of many problems live [in Morocco] through one character,” Benghalem explains of the film.

The Wound had its world premiere at The Women And The World Film Festival in London late last year. Its Moroccan premiere came at the Casablanca Arab Film Festival.

The company is handling distribution of The Wound in Morocco with a realease planned in the Autumn. Dubai-based Mad World is handling world sales.

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