Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda has won the Best Actress Award at the Brussels International Film Festival (FIFB) for her performance in Les Fourmis, directed by Yassine Fennane. Released in 2025, the film was among five feature films selected for the international competition, chosen from more than 250 entries reviewed by the festival's committee. Set in the heart of Tangier, Les Fourmis offers a poignant and deeply human look at the often-invisible journeys of migration. It stands as the most internationally selected Moroccan film of 2025. After screenings in Durban, Paris, and Brussels, the film will continue its festival run in London, New York, Nairobi, and Kinshasa. With a runtime of 90 minutes, the feature is part of a new wave of North African cinema exploring the dynamics of intra-African migration. Through three intertwined stories, it delves into the complexities of ambition, displacement, and redemption across the continent. The story follows Félicité, a young Cameroonian woman trying to give her late friend a dignified burial in Morocco. Along the way, she encounters Hamid, a man torn between his ideals and compromises, and Kenza and Badr, a bourgeois couple forced to confront their own prejudices when faced with otherness. Another Moroccan production also competed at the 10th edition of the FIFB (October 28 – November 1), the short film Une Histoire de vacances by Malika Zairi, which delicately explores identity and intergenerational tensions within families of the Moroccan diaspora. Held alternately between Brussels and several African cities, the FIFB aims to serve as a platform for dialogue between African and European cinemas, encouraging discovery, exchange, and the promotion of bold, innovative creations.
