Uptown Flicks at Maysles, in partnership with the African Film Festival, is pleased to present a special screening of the French-Moroccan film Sofia. This moving debut feature by Meryem Benm’Bare, which premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, depicts the familial and legal crisis that ensues after a young woman gives birth without being married. The feature will be preceded by the short film Les Indes galantes directed by Clément Cogitore for the Paris Opera. There will be a post-screening discussion with Columbia University Professor Madeleine Dobie who is a specialist of literature and cinema in contemporary Maghreb. Attendees are welcome to join for a cocktail party sponsored by The Ponty Bistro in the Maysles Cinema lounge after the screening.

Special programming

Post-screening discussion with Columbia University Professor Madeleine Dobie

About the Film

Sofia is unaware that she is pregnant until she unexpectedly gives birth out of wedlock, in violation of Moroccan law. Faced with 24 hours to provide the father's identification papers, she's forced to track down his family.
About Meryem Benm'Bare

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