Burnout

Story

Synopsis

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.

Director

Nour-Eddine Lakhmari

Writers

Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Attila Veres

Language

Arabic

Country

Morocco

Release date

11 October 2017

Budget

$2,000,000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Sarah Perles

  Aida

• 

  Morjana Alaoui

  Ines

• 

  Anas El Baz

  Jad

• 

  Mohamed Khiari

  Ronda

• 

  Ilyas El Jihani

  Ayoub

• 

  Driss Roukhe

  Mr. Faridi

• Karim Saidi

  Mr. Ghazali

• 

  Fatima ezzahra El Jaouhari

  Soumaya

• 

  Saadia Ladib

  Rabia

• Badr Bouhaih

  Mous

• Taoufik Hazeb

  Omar

• 

  Fatima Herandi Raouya