– VENICE 2020: Ismal El Irakis debut film is a raucous, Casablanca-set tajine western about two lost souls overcoming trauma through love, communication, and rock and roll
Said Bey in Zanka Contact
Playing in Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival, Zanka Contact, the debut film by Ismal El Iraki, has troubled central lovers echoing Wild at Heart‘s Sailor and Lula and Head-On[+see also:
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