Focus on Randa Maroufi
Randa Maroufi, L’mina, 2025
In her works, which include video, photography, and installation, Maroufi adopts a political approach to the representation of bodies in public spaces and to gender issues, revealing their underlying mechanisms. Her films, often developed in close collaboration with the specific communities she engages with, employ special effects and other formal devices that alter the perception of time, space, and movement.
Lo schermo dell’arte is pleased to present five of Maroufi’s films, created between 2015 and 2025, including L’MINA, winner of the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at the Critics’ Week of the most recent Cannes Film Festival. Maroufi participated in the 11th edition of VISIO in 2022.
RANDA MAROUFI
Randa Maroufi (Casablanca, 1987; lives and works in Paris) has exhibited at venues including Le Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse; L’Arc–Scène Nationale, Le Creusot; MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine; Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen; Biennale de Lyon; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; and New Museum, New York.
Her films have been shown at international festivals such as Cannes, FID Marseille, IFFR Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.
Maroufi is the recipient of the 2025–2026 photography and cinema fellowship from the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici.
Filmography
2025 L’MINA 2019 Bab Sebta 2019 Barbès 2017 Stand-by Office 2015 The Park 2014 The Great Safae
Programme
13 novembre 2025 - ore 21:00
Cinema La Compagnia
Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar, 2025, 26’
In the presence of the artist
Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, officially halted in 2001, has continued informally to the present day. L’MINA reconstructs the current activity in the mines through a set designed in collaboration with local residents, who play their own roles on screen.
14 November 2025 – 3:00 PM
Institut français Firenze
The artist presents her film work, which is often developed in close collaboration with specific communities she engages with, using special effects and other formal devices that alter the perception of time, space, and movement.
French and English language
Free admission
14 November 2025 – 5:00 PM
Cinema La Compagnia
France, Morocco, 2015, 14’
In the presence of the artist
A camera slowly moves through an abandoned amusement park in the heart of Casablanca. The film traces a portrait of the young people who frequent this place and presents snapshots of their lives, carefully reframed and often inspired by images found on social media. Politically charged moments, dangers frozen in time, moments before action—the audience observes something about to happen and is invited to engage in an experience of duration.
14 November 2025 – following
Cinema La Compagnia
France, Lebanon, Romania, 2017, 13’20’’
Italian premiere
In the presence of the artist
The camera observes a group of people inside an office and their everyday work gestures. Nothing seems out of place. As it guides us through the rooms, our perception of this particular space gradually changes. We begin to ask: what does this office mean to this group of people?
The performers in the film are refugees from the We Are Here group in Amsterdam who do not have permission to work or housing and are therefore forced to live on the streets. The group decided to make their inhumane condition visible—not by hiding, but by showing the situation of those excluded from official procedures in the Netherlands.
14 November 2025 – following
Cinema La Compagnia
France, 2019, sound, 6’
In the presence of the artist
‘Intruding’ women occupy public space for the duration of the performance.
They adopt the same gestures and postures that men display when frequenting these places, disregarding the passage of time. They inhabit the exterior of venues, exposing themselves within the unfamiliarity of a public space that would normally exclude them.
November 14, 2025 - following
Cinema La Compagnia
France, 2019, 19'
In the presence of the artist
Bab Sebta consists of a series of situations reconstructed based on observations made at the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Moroccan territory, which is the site of intense trade in discounted goods. Every day, thousands of people work there.