Aoud rih

English title: The Wind Horse

German title: Das Windpferd

Alternative title: Le cheval de vent

Director: Daoud Aoulad-Syad    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Daoud Aoulad Syad was born in Marrakesh, Morocco in 1953. In 1981, he graduated with a degree in physics in France. He made his first short films while participating in the 'Université d'été, découverte du cinéma en France' at FEMIS in 1989. Daoud Aoulad Syad's photographs have been exhibited around the world and published in the following books: 'Marocains' (1989), 'Boujaad, Espace et Mémoire' (1996) and 'Territoires de l'Instant' (2000). After 'Adieu Forain', THE WIND HORSE was his second feature film.

Country: Morocco

Year: 2001

Synopsis: This is the story of the friendship that develops between an old man and a younger one. It takes the form of a road movie, in which the journey is made by means of a motorcycle and sidecar, and in which poetry and fantasy spring to life against a background of dull, everyday routine. Tahar is a former blacksmith who leaves his son’s house in the little town of Salé, where he feels he has outlived his usefulness and become nothing but a burden and a nuisance. He decides to react by paying one last visit to the tomb of the woman he truly loved in Azemmour, where Tahar lived a full and active life before his retirement. The journey he has decided to make is like a pilgrimage into his own past. Driss, the younger man, leaves hospital without knowing whether he is cured or condemned. He concentrates all his energy on the strange letter he has recently received, informing him that his mother wishes to see her children one last time. But Driss was raised by his older brother, convinced that his mother had died when he was barely three years old. What brings Tahar and Driss together is the nature of their common quest: each has set his sights on a chimeric horizon, and prefers to keep yearning for it than to actually reach it.

Language: Arabic

Forum participation year: 2002

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