The screenplays of Moroccan multi-hyphenate Maryam Touzani (“Adam,” “The Blue Caftan”) always start from a personal place. Her latest, “Calle Málaga,” which screens in Venice and Toronto, is set in Tangier. It centers on María Ángeles (Spanish screen legend Carmen Maura), an 80-year-old resident of the titular street, whose bond with her colorful coastal hometown is rich and complex; she’s Spanish while also somehow being Moroccan. The film, a veritable love letter to the city, was inspired by Touzani’s beloved maternal grandmother, a Spaniard who arrived in Morocco during the Spanish protectorate and lived in Tangier all her life.
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