, a story of arts students in the titular Moroccan city. Former rapper Anas takes a job at a cultural center in a working-class part of town, and tries to teach a mixed group of kids and teens to rap.With a style that’s questioning and confrontational but fostering, Anas fits firmly into the inspirational teacher category. His students respond enthusiastically, taking turns to perform and bringing their problems and politics into the classroom.
Anas is keen to keep religion out of the classroom, but Islam is an inescapable theme as the kids share their different views on suitable attire for women. Young female rappers wear and discuss hijabs, and engage in heated conversations about gender. There’s a fascinating conversation about harassment, in which boys suggest that girls wouldn’t get attacked or bothered if they covered up their bodies. They are swiftly rebuked, but different positions come from different young women.
. But it turns out its ambitions are more humble, so we are denied the big emotional beats of this genre, however predictable it might be. Still, the film has the power to engage and amuse, and it also delivers a factor that’s in short supply in this year’s Cannes competition entries: joy.
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