At a glance

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Spirituality and Sufism Travel Health, body and death

Screening Room

Format: Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released: 2016 CE · 1437 AH†
Countries: MA · FR · ES · QA
Languages: ar (original)
Approach: drama of Muslim life
Depiction of sacred figures: The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

Overview

A film by Olivier Laxe, winner of the Critics' Week award at Cannes, about a Sufi caravan that crosses the Atlas mountains to bury its shaykh in his birthplace village. ¹ ²

People and things also explored

Taste of Cherry· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· Fleshy growth in the wife's womb and the right to annul (afal)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· Grief and worry (al-huzn)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)

Sources

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islam.museum contributors. “Mimosas”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/mimasat-2016/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami's Palme d'Or winner about a Tehran man seeking someone to bury him if he dies by suicide — its dialogues turn on Islamic arguments over life and death.