Moroccan Actress Khansa Batma Wins Top Honor at Venice Film Festival for ’Zanka Contact’

"Zanka contact" is a film by Ismaïl El Iraki, whose filming took place in 2019 in Casablanca and its surroundings. The Arab countries presented six productions at this festival which was held despite the pandemic of the new coronavirus. The film tells the story of "Larsen", a rocker whose life takes a turn the day he lost the most important instrument in the life of any singer: the voice.

But his meeting with Rajaa, a former prostitute with a golden voice, gives him the chance to continue writing songs that tell his life as a night owl in Casablanca. Very early on, the two artists fall in love in a context marked by the realities of life on the streets of Casablanca and the world of prostitution. It is a suspenseful film shot in purely western settings.