Seven years after the death of his mother, Karim, thirteen years old, has left Paris to go back to Morocco with his father Messaoud, who has remarried. After a year of boarding school at the French high school in Casablanca, he returns to Boujad, a small town in central Morocco, to spend the summer with his blended family. His initial emotions merge with the uncertainties of adolescence and the need to reconquer his position in his family.
Omar Mouldouira was born in Paris in 1973, and graduated from La Fémis in 1999 with a degree in sound engineering. In 2004, he started teaching audiovisual techniques, screenplay writing and directing at film schools in France and Morocco. He wrote and directed short films that received awards in many festivals. A Summer in Boujad is his first feature film.
