Miraculous Accident

In 1968, Nadir, a Moroccan student, attended the Łódź Film School in Poland, sent there to study communist filmmaking techniques as part of the Eastern Bloc’s support for anti-imperialist struggles. He becomes both a student and lover of a Jewish film professor, Edyta, who—despite her anti-Zionist views—is forced to leave Poland due to the political rupture with Israel following the Six-Day War (1967). In 2024, Nadir returns to the school to shoot a film after discovering a forgotten letter Edyta wrote to him from Haifa in 1989. Inspired by the life of former student, poet, and Moroccan director Abdelkader Lagtaâ, who plays Nadir in the film, Miraculous Accident weaves together original footage and excerpts from films shot by actual students at the school in the 1960s. Time slips back and forth as images of the past intertwine with those of the present, lamenting the cruelty of politics and revealing the power of love beyond time.