Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/hadid-tala-c992all.aspx Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:58:00 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/house-in-the-fields-p991.aspx Product991 Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:11:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/house-in-the-fields-p991.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/house-in-the-fields.jpg" alt="House in the Fields" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/house-in-the-fields-p991.aspx">House in the Fields</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/house-in-the-fields-p991.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div><i>House in the Fields</i> examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the south-west region of the High Atlas Mountains. The thousand-year history of the Amazigh in Morocco has been, for the most part, recounted, preserved and transmitted by bards and storytellers in oral form among Tamazight speaking pastoral communities.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>Continuing this tradition of transmission in an audiovisual form, <i>House in the Fields</i> attempts to faithfully document and present a portrait of a village and community that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years despite being confronted with the rapidly changing sociopolitical realities of the country at large. The film follows the lives of certain villagers, most specifically two teenage sisters, one who must give up school to prepare for her wedding, and the other who dreams of being a judge.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>“Beautifully intimate and charged with the sense of inevitable change to come, this prescient production, embellished with minimal sound and a fantastic spectacle of celebration for an ending, makes <i>House in the Fields </i>well worth the journey.”&nbsp;</div><div>— Rene J. Meyer-Grimberg, <i>Berlin Film Journal&nbsp;</i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>"Hadid's film beautifully frames thesisters within their domestic setting and the wider Moroccan society, andhandles the balance between daily chores and personal dreams with grace andsincerity. A powerful documentary filmed in a section of North Africa rarelyseen in the media, this is highly recommended."&nbsp;</div></div><div><div>— P. Hall, <i>Video Librarian</i></div></div></blockquote><div><hr><b><br /></b></div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS &amp; AWARDS</b></div><div><i>World Premiere</i>, Berlin International Film Festival, 2017&nbsp;</div><div><i>Best Documentary</i>, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2017&nbsp;</div><div><i>John Marshall Award</i>, Camden International Film Festival, USA 2017</div><div><i>Fiction/Non-Fiction Award for Best Film</i>, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland, 2017&nbsp;</div><div><i>City of Milan Prize</i>, Festival Cinema Asia Africa America Latina, Italy, 2017</div><div>Prix TV 2M, Fidadoc, Morocco, 2017</div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/hadid-tala-c992all.aspx">Hadid, Tala</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>