Queens

by Yasmine Benkiran

Film

Title: Queens

Director: Yasmine Benkiran

Genre: Fiction

Country: France, Morocco, Belgium, Netherlands

Production : Mont Fleuri Production, Petit Film, Need Productions, KeyFilm, Deuxième Ligne

Synopsis :

Casablanca, Morocco.

Zineb escapes from prison to save her daughter from state custody. But things quickly get complicated when she takes a truck driver, Asma, hostage. With the police on their heels, the three women embark on a dangerous run through the Atlas Mountains…

Director

Yasmine Benkiran

Yasmine Benkiran grew up on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. As a screenwriter, she writes for both television and cinema. She is currently co-writing with Sarah Farkas ‘La Bibliothèque Noire’, an anthology of fantastic stories, directed by Vincent Mariette and produced by Elzevir Films. In 2018, Yasmine directed her first short film, ‘Winter Time’ (Tangier IFF, Off-courts Trouville) and she is now developing her first feature film as a director, ‘Queens’.