"Confronting Amnesia and Political Change in the Arab World," by Martin Evans, History Today, Blog, 10 June 2014, highlights a new movie, They Are the Dogs, which appears to be about a worker released from prison for something that did or did not happen in the 1980s right at the time that Morocco is spiraling into crisis. (The article includes a trailer in English.) Morocco didn't have a "Spring," but the atmosphere on the streets is similar to that in Egypt or Tunisia.
- "The film follows three members of a television crew as they set off to report on the protest movements in Morocco in February 2011. Intrigued by the strange mannerisms of an old man called Majhoul, the crew decide to focus their report on him. As they follow him through the backstreets of urban Casablanca, the crew discover the story of a man who has just been released from prison 30 years after a police raid during Morocco's 1981 food riots, and who is completely lost in a modern Morocco in the midst of the Arab Spring."
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