DIMA PUNK
DOCUMENTARY
Once a punk... always a punk ? Stof is a young punk from Casablanca. During the eight years that we followed him, he tried to set his Mohawk against all odds. He pays a heavy price for his independence when he finds himself arrested and imprisoned for eleven months. Will he remain “Dima Punk”, forever a punk?
“DIMA PUNK” - TRAILER
Director - DOMINIQUE CAUBET
Dominique Caubet is Professor Emerita of Maghrebi Arabic at INALCO Paris. A sociolinguist specialized in Moroccan Arabic, she has written numerous books and articles on Morocco. Over the past ten years, she has worked on the underground music scene and cultural movement that developed between 2005 and 2007, a Moroccan movida called Nayda. She had a first experience as an author for the documentary Casanayda! directed by F. Benlyazid, A. Mettour, Sigma - Casablanca, 2007. Dima Punk is her first film as a filmmaker.
Director Statement
Years of immersion have won Stof’s and Orland’s confidence. Stof is a punker and Orland was his mentor, ten years ago. To film in their neighbourhood, the camera gradually became habitual and therefore, invisible. The film is a portrait, but, at the same time, a rare narrative on the situation of popular Urban youths in Morocco with different tastes, who are left out of the system and left to themselves. “NEET” is the acronym given to the 2.7 million young people from age 15 to 29 in this case in Morocco -it stands for No Education, No Employment, No Training. Stof is one of them and he struggles to try and be himself and at the same time to fit in the margins of the system.
CREDITS
Dominique Caubet
Director
Dominique Caubet
Writer
Casanayda (2007)
Christian Pfohl - Lardux Films
Producer
Rita El Quessar - Panproduction
Producer
Reda Benjelloun 2M
Producer
Jacques Rivière
Photograpy
Mickaël Clouet
Photograpy
Aboubakr Douraidi
Photograpy
Dominique Caubet
Photograpy
Hamza Benmoussa
Photograpy
Othman Aouinet
Photograpy
Aboubakr Douraidi
Sound
Mustapha Delleci
Sound
Dominique Caubet
Sound
Michèle Le Guernevel
Editing
Adam Wolny
Sound editing and mixing
Eric Heinrich
Colour grading
Yassir Qebibo
Original music
Figub Brazlevič
Original music
Dominique Caubet
Subtitles
Hernan Mazzeo
Subtitles
Marc Boyer
Postproduction
Hernan Mazzeo
Postproduction
Domnique Caubet
Translation