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The Green March (المسيرة; Al Massira) is a Moroccan film, written and directed by Youssef Britel, produced by Entourage Production, released on April 27, 2016 in Moroccan theaters. This film reconstructs and revisits the Green March, of November 6, 1975, through the eyes of different characters, played by Mourad Zaoui, Mohammed Choubi, Mohammed Khouyi, Nadia Niazi, Saadia Azgoun, Driss Roukhe, Rachid el Ouali, Said Bey, Mohamed Nadif, Laila Triki, Hamid Najah, Hicham el Ouali, Jilali Ferhati, Aziz Dadas, Younes Megri, Synopsis: The film was unveiled during a private screening organized in Laayoune on November 7, 2015, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Green March. It was also screened out of competition at the 2015 Marrakech International Film Festival and the Tangier National Film Festival. 350,000 stories that have become one, 350,000 destinies and 350,000 who marched for the future of an entire nation. This is the story of the Green March, a peaceful march to reclaim a legitimate Moroccan land, the unanimous response of a people to the call of their King. The film "Al Massira, The Green March" tells us the story of Massira, a woman born on the day of this historic event. It tells how her mother, Zhor, risked her life to give birth on the land of her late husband, in the occupied dunes of the Moroccan Sahara. Massira was born on the same day that the Moroccan Sahara regained its freedom. Her story intertwines with that of those who march, people who cross paths and whose destinies complement each other for a single aspiration; contribute to the building of territorial integrity and modern Morocco. Ali, a small-time thug from the shanty towns, has chosen to walk to have a new chance, to see life in a new light and to define himself as a Moroccan. He walks to leave behind a life of opportunism, to become a man capable of doing anything for the just cause. Mohammed and Youssef are brothers and have chosen to walk for a completely different cause. Youssef is dying, the walk is for him the last opportunity to get closer to his older brother and to accomplish a final civic and human act. Zhor will also meet a young Spanish woman who has come to denounce the infamy of colonialism and the atrocities of Franco…