"My Makhzen and Me" Nadir Bouhmouch

Born in Casablanca and raised in Rabat, Nadir Bouhmouch is a Moroccan activist and student double-majoring in Film and International Security/Conflict Resolution. As an international student at San Diego State University, he is president of the local chapter of Amnesty International, working to promote human rights and global justice. "My Makhzen and Me" is his first feature film.

In the summer of 2011, Nadir Bouhmouch, a Moroccan student studying abroad in California returns to his home country and finds it in a state of turmoil. The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had spread to Morocco. The February 20th movement had begun, organized by students and promoted through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a website called Mamfakinch. People were flooding the streets and demanding change. But the Makhzen (the ruling elite) refuses to abandon it’s grasp. This film investigates what gave birth to the revolt and the obstacles it encounters on it’s struggle for freedom, democracy, human rights and an end to corruption and poverty.

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"La raison derrière mon choix de titre se trouve dans la notion Rousseauiste du "contrat social" entre le peuple et ceux qui tiennent le pouvoir. Donc le titre est un peu ironique dans le sens que ce contrat social est violé, le Makhzen ne répond et ne représente pas le peuple. Le mot "MY" désigne le fait qu'un gouvernement devrait appartenir au peuple et en outre, il met un accent sur le fait que ce film se base sur : une relation intime entre l'audience et le cinéaste, sur le cinéaste comme un citoyen entre des millions d'autres et finalement, sur la relation entre les individus dans l'audience et le Makhzen lui même."

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