Hot Docs Review: ‘Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings’
Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings (Morocco/Belgium, 80 min.) Dir. Jawad Rhalib Programme: International Spectrum In a small community in the High Atlas of Morocco, villagers go about their daily lives, which are based on an undisputable division of labour. The women clean, cook, raise children, tend the animals and twice a day, go down to the river to fetch water. The men have snoring fests or sit at cafés for hours, when field work is scarce. This seemingly undisputed old-age order gets a rattle with the arrival of Fadma, a fiery and progressive woman, and her family from Casablanca. Their