Crossing the Seventh Gate

Ali Essafi visited Bouanani three years before the latter’s death. The filmmaker, poet and novelist who also made drawings was leading a reclusive life in a remote village with his wife Naïma and many cats, living in the midst of huge piles of books and manuscripts.

• Ali EssafiDirector

• Ahmed Bouananihimself
• Naïma Saoudihimself
• Touda Bouananihimself
• Ali Essafihimself