10/05/2021 - The fight for water continues in Mohamed El Aboudi’s Hot Docs Special Jury Prize winner, leaving its audience parched
Awarded the Special Jury Prize for Best International Feature Documentary at Hot Docs 2021 (see the news),
Mohamed El Aboudi’s
School of Hope is actually a relatively easy watch. There is some humour here and some smiles, too, even though it shows Morocco’s Oulad Boukais tribe, suffering from the drought that has been going on for what already feels like forever. It’s true – their world, one of the silent victims of climate change, couldn’t possibly get any drier. Surrounded by cracked ground and not much else, really, with the most heated arguments revolving around water, it’s like