The Ministry of Justice opens up to the cinema through an open meeting with director Sanae Akroud around the film “Wasaya” (will) with an approach that affects art and social issues.
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The gallery of the Ministry of Justice at the 30th edition of the Book Fair was animated by an open meeting with the director, producer, screenwriter and actress Sanae Akroud, followed by an intellectual and journalistic seminar on her new film “Wasaya”, which highlights various contemporary societal questions.
The event has gathered a large audience, professionals and media representatives, who discussed the creative aspects of the film and the deep social messages which it conveys, in particular with regard to the marriage of minors and the various legal and procedural questions faced by divorced women, such as legal guardianship, childcare and other challenges, as well as the challenges they are confronted with their rights and Or after the end of the marital relationship.
Sanae Akroud spoke of her experience in writing and making the film, and the technical and substantive difficulties that she encountered by approaching the subject of family law, especially since the work lasted almost five years between research and writing, and the start of filming coincided with the launch of the family reform workshops after the royal speech of His Majesty Mohammed Vi, 2023.
After having answered questions from the organizers of the workshops, the public and the media professionals, the guest did not fail to thank the Minister of Justice in particular, in the person of Minister Abdellatif Wahbi, by providing him with a team of legal advisers who accompanied her in mastering the legal and procedural aspect of the scenes relating to the questions brought to justice, without interfering in the dramatic matter.
The guest also expressed her gratitude to all those who have contributed to the success of this work, and considered, on a personal basis, that the presentation of this distinguished experience is his simple contribution, as a cultural actor, artist, mother and woman above all, to reach legal and social issues as close as possible to reality, stressing the importance of cinema as a means of awareness and awareness in the momentum of the societal and legal debate The light of the new family code project.
For the first time, the film “Wasaya” (wills), screened in the cinemas since February 5, was screened exclusively to the Ministry of Justice, in the presence of its director, Sanae Akroud, and a large audience.
This qualitative initiative is part of the participation of the Ministry of Justice in the Book Fair, in its contemporary opening strategy to a certain number of stakeholders and actors to promote the debate and help to advance the major project of the justice reform.
