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Venice: ‘Zanka Contact’ Director Subverts Genre Moviemaking to Explore PTSD

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Ben Croll With his feature debut, director Ismaël El Iraki presents a raucous, rock-and-roll-fueled tour through the underworld of Casablanca.

Shot on 35mm and featuring a number of live performances, “Zanka Contact,” which premiered on Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, is a musical romp that mixes gangster film swagger with a marked sense of place.“I’m a child of the 90s,” El Iraki tells Variety. “I was breastfed on Tarantino and Sergio Leone.

Those films mixed with my Moroccan experience. Casablanca is a very violent city, and our project was to capture that spirit.

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