Qirat is a film loosely based around the reconstruction of an oral family story surrounding a robbery that took place in the lush green valley of Fez, located in northern Morocco during the 1980s.
In the film, the events have been relocated to Ouarzazate, located on the border of the Sahara desert in central-southern Morocco with the reconstruction taking place over a single Friday, exclusively during dawn, dusk, and finally night.
As the events of the oral story slowly unfolds from the Atlas Mountains into the city centre, the story serves as a compass leading through various locations in Ouarzazate, where the place's life, it’s history as a Hollywood shooting location and one of the world's largest solar energy fields are interwoven into each other.
