Officially Selected for the Festival Season
September 2024
PALACE GUARDIANSحراس لكصر
Director:
AIDA BOUYA
Producer:
Khalid Dami
Writer:
NAIMA LAMGHAYFRI
Selected for the following category(s)
In this film, we try to delve into the memory of the place to give an accurate picture documented with audio and video of the group of landmarks that were and still are distributed within the palace neighborhoods, to shed light on one of the palaces located in southern Morocco, which is known as the Asa Palace, or (the Palace) as its residents like to pronounce it, and it is distinguished by its historical and architectural value. And civilization, and is full of an important, diverse and ancient architectural heritage, which we discover by following the path of the three characters Bouzid Mazdad in the palace, and one of its well-known residents runs a small inn consisting of houses in one of the neighborhoods of Qasr Asa.
Taking advantage of the grandeur and simplicity of the building, and to control the temperature inside the buildings, modern technology was combined with great success with some of the oldest methods known to man, such as clay bricks, which are an ancient building material and have Excellent insulation properties, as they help keep the heat of the day out and equalize the difference. Between day and night temperatures. Another thing was added to this natural temperature control by integrating cold water pipes into the mud plaster of the walls. This combination of mud brick walls and cold water flowing inside the pipes helps keep the internal temperature at a comfortable and constant limit. Not far from Bouzid, in the second district, we find Mother Sahaba, who knows the secrets of the palace and lives on the authentic desert tents she weaves with her fingertips.
Taking advantage of the space of the square in the middle of the palace, then Embarak, that ambitious young man who lives not far from Fasr Asa. His profession is decorating in television and cinema productions, as well as festivals, and by virtue of the nature of his work, Hawa Al-Akhir took advantage of a space in the third district of Luxor and equipped it with all the supplies of desert décoration from old tools, the late millstone Amshaqab. And the fur is like the silk of the saddlebags, the pillars of the tent. The heroes of this work are of different ages, tribal affiliations, skin colors, and different Hassani, Berber, and dialect dialects, but their common denominator is belonging to this lofty edifice, which dates back thousands of years of stone time, both in terms of its reconstruction as well as the social, religious, and political facilities, and based on the traditional architecture with which it was built. .