L’Mina (2025)

Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day.

L’Mina recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.

The film screens with Sambizanga.

Randa Maroufi (born 1987, Casablanca, Morocco) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose practice moves between photography, video, and installation. Her work maintains an elastic relationship to reality. Many of her projects are developed in close collaboration with communities she is connected to, though not necessarily part of. The scenes she creates depict a strange kind of reality; one that, though factually accurate, forges an ethical connection to lived experience. Maroufi is particularly interested in the staging of the body in both public and intimate spaces. Her often political approach invokes ambiguity to question the status of images and the limits of representation. Her work has been presented at numerous international venues and events, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington (USA), Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival (France), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Museum Hof van Busleyden (Belgium), Biennale de Lyon (France), Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates), Dakar Biennale (Senegal), Bienal do Mercosul (Brazil), and Marrakech Biennale (Morocco), among others. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Angers, and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. She has been a member of the Académie de France à Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, and is currently a member of the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici.