Tagnawittude

Documentary, Morocco 2010, 80 min, English subtitles

This is no normal music documentary, even though the director Rahma Benhamou El Madani follows the standard routine of accompanying the band Gnawa Diffusion on their exhilarating concert tour of Europe and records the Trance music at the Sufi festival in Essaouira in emotional and moving pictures. For her, it is an attempt to bring together different identities. In doing so, she retraces her childhood memories: of her mother performing trance meditation to the music of the Gnawa.