Atlantic
Toronto International Film Festival • Drama
Fettah (Fettah Lamara, a real-life Moroccan windsurfer) lives in a Moroccan coastal village where every summer he looks after the needs of Europeans who come on holiday to windsurf. During one particularly memorable summer, he befriends a beautiful woman. When she leaves to go back home, Fettah decides to embark on a treacherous and solitary windsurfing voyage along the Moroccan Atlantic coast to Europe.
DIRECTED BY JAN-WILLEM VAN EWIJK
GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, MOROCCO, FRANCE | 2014 | ENGLISH, ARABIC, FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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