The Hmadchas

2MT00023
Note

The Hmadchas

Collection title

Music of Morocco

ID

2MT00023

Source

SOREAD-2M (MA)

First broadcast date

03/08/1994

Production year

1994

Abstract

Meknes is a city that lives somehow out of time, with some unknown supernatural and eternal hints. The testimony is this sacred music that tears the darkness and that seems to fly towards the stars. These are the Hmadchas looking for trance and forgetting.

Type

video

Production companies

  • 2M - Own production

Broadcaster

2M - 2M

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Music and songs

Secondary themes

  • Society and way of life

Credits / Cast

  • Amrani Youssef - Director

Period of events

  • 1994

Map locations

  • Morocco - North - Meknes

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

5m42

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