Marrakech – Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda has been awarded Best Actress at the Brussels International Film Festival (FIFB) for her powerful performance in “Les Fourmis,” directed by Yassine Fennane.
Produced in 2025, “Les Fourmis” was among the five feature films selected for the festival’s international competition, chosen from a pool of 250 entries.
Set in Tangier, the film offers a nuanced, deeply human perspective on often-invisible migratory journeys.
It has already become the most internationally selected Moroccan film of 2025. It was initially screened in Durban, Paris, and Brussels, with upcoming stops in London, New York, Nairobi, and Kinshasa.
Running 90 minutes, the feature is part of a new North African cinematic movement exploring intra-African migration.
Through three intertwined stories it examines the complexities of migration, ambition, and redemption across the continent.
The narrative follows Félicité, a young Cameroonian woman striving to give her late friend a dignified funeral in Morocco.
Her journey intersects with Hamid, a man torn between ideals and compromise, and Kenza and Badr, a bourgeois couple confronting their own prejudices toward “the other.”
Another Moroccan film also competed at the 10th FIFB: the short film “Une Histoire de Vacances” by Malika Zairi, which delicately explores intergenerational and identity tensions within Moroccan diaspora families.
