Plot

A key element of Bensaidi's style is his particular approach to the camera.he chooses lenghty fixed takes, long shots, in which the distance from the subject is important, a sort of "powerless gaze" contemplating what happens to the characters. The rhythm is created by a movement of bodies in a limited space and a precise frame. The appearance, disappearance and encounters of figures in this space are important as a note in a musical score. What doesn't appear on the screen is a s important as what appears and the spectators intelligence and imagination are constantly adressed.
All this is apparent in The Cliff, a black-and-whire fictional film with virtually no dialogues and commentary, which has won more festival prizes than any other Morrocan film..The film chronicles the day in life of two boys, hakim and his younger brother Said, who scavenge for empty bottles at the beach and then sell them to a blind alchohol vendor.
When Hakim tries to cheat him, he is chased, caught and loses his meagre hoard of money. A group of drunken bikers spotted on the beach from a clifftop offers the prospect of good pickings and hakim steals a sack in readiness. But the bikers use the bottles for target practice, smashing them with stones from the beach, and Hakim is left mortified.

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