Anas El Baz

Anas El Baz was born in Rabat to a leading Moroccan Economist father and a teacher mother. In 2003, he entered the prestigious "Cours Florent" and started a four years training with Mélissa Broutin, Christian Croset, George Becot and Helene Marthy. El Baz earned critical notice for his starring role in "CasaNegra", Morocco's Box-Office hit of 2009, which garnered over 25 International Festival Prizes and won him The Best Actor Award at the Brussels Independent Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival and Muscat Film Festival.

Pegasus (2010)

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mohamed Mouftakir
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Majdouline Idrissi  •  Saadia Ladib  •  Nadia Niazi

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mohamed Mouftakir
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Majdouline Idrissi  •  Saadia Ladib  •  Nadia Niazi

Queen of the Desert (2015)

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Werner Herzog
CAST:  Nicole Kidman  •  James Franco  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Damian Lewis

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Werner Herzog
CAST:  Nicole Kidman  •  James Franco  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Damian Lewis

Contagion (2011)

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As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Soderbergh
CAST:  Matt Damon  •  Gwyneth Paltrow  •  Kate Winslet  •  Jude Law

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Soderbergh
CAST:  Matt Damon  •  Gwyneth Paltrow  •  Kate Winslet  •  Jude Law

Casanegra (2008)

A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nour-Eddine Lakhmari
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Mohamed Benbrahim  •  Omar Lotfi  •  Ghita Tazi

A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nour-Eddine Lakhmari
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Mohamed Benbrahim  •  Omar Lotfi  •  Ghita Tazi

Ta mère ! (2015)

A family comedy about arranged marriage  (more)

DIRECTION:  Touria Benzari
CAST:  Sofiia Manousha  •  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Julie Gayet  •  Barbara Cabrita

A family comedy about arranged marriage  (more)

DIRECTION:  Touria Benzari
CAST:  Sofiia Manousha  •  Salim Kéchiouche  •  Julie Gayet  •  Barbara Cabrita

8 Assassins (2014)

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DIRECTION:  Said C. Naciri
CAST:  Mohamed Elachi  •  Sarah Kazemy  •  Affif Ben Badra  •  Anas El Baz

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DIRECTION:  Said C. Naciri
CAST:  Mohamed Elachi  •  Sarah Kazemy  •  Affif Ben Badra  •  Anas El Baz

Return to Bollene (2018)

Nassim, in his early thirties, lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancée, Elisabeth. After several years of absence, he returns with her to Bollene, a town in the South of France where he grew up. But Nassim must face his past: a dead city now governed by the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saïd Hamich
CAST:  Saïd Benchnafa  •  Kate Colebrook  •  Anas El Baz  •  Bénédicte-Lala Ernoult

Nassim, in his early thirties, lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancée, Elisabeth. After several years of absence, he returns with her to Bollene, a town in the South of France where he grew up. But Nassim must face his past: a dead city now governed by the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saïd Hamich
CAST:  Saïd Benchnafa  •  Kate Colebrook  •  Anas El Baz  •  Bénédicte-Lala Ernoult

Burnout (2017)

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nour-Eddine Lakhmari
CAST:  Sarah Perles  •  Morjana Alaoui  •  Anas El Baz  •  Mohamed Khiari

BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nour-Eddine Lakhmari
CAST:  Sarah Perles  •  Morjana Alaoui  •  Anas El Baz  •  Mohamed Khiari

Damascus Cover (2017)

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Zelik Berk
CAST:  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Olivia Thirlby  •  John Hurt  •  Jürgen Prochnow

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Zelik Berk
CAST:  Jonathan Rhys Meyers  •  Olivia Thirlby  •  John Hurt  •  Jürgen Prochnow

The Unknown Saint (2020)

Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint build directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alaa Eddine Aljem
CAST:  Younes Bouab  •  Salah Bensalah  •  Bouchaib Essamak  •  Mohamed Naimane

Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint build directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alaa Eddine Aljem
CAST:  Younes Bouab  •  Salah Bensalah  •  Bouchaib Essamak  •  Mohamed Naimane

Pas si simple (2010)

Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rachida Krim
CAST:  Razika Nayis  •  Ouassini Embarek  •  Fejria Deliba  •  Zinedine Soualem

Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rachida Krim
CAST:  Razika Nayis  •  Ouassini Embarek  •  Fejria Deliba  •  Zinedine Soualem

The Evil Slave (2015)

Three lives collide and go over the dark side.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mohcine Nadifi
CAST:  Driss Roukhe  •  Anas El Baz  •  Hana Keshlaf  •  Nadia Niazi

Three lives collide and go over the dark side.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mohcine Nadifi
CAST:  Driss Roukhe  •  Anas El Baz  •  Hana Keshlaf  •  Nadia Niazi

Ransomed (2023)

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kim Seong-hun
CAST:  Ha Jung-woo  •  Ju Ji-hoon  •  Anas El Baz  •  Park Hyeok-kwon

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kim Seong-hun
CAST:  Ha Jung-woo  •  Ju Ji-hoon  •  Anas El Baz  •  Park Hyeok-kwon

The Forgiven (2022)

Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Michael McDonagh
CAST:  Ralph Fiennes  •  Jessica Chastain  •  Matt Smith  •  Caleb Landry Jones

Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Michael McDonagh
CAST:  Ralph Fiennes  •  Jessica Chastain  •  Matt Smith  •  Caleb Landry Jones

La moitié du ciel (2015)

This film revolves around the path of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Allabi in the seventies of the last century, but the mouthpiece of Allabi's wife, Jocelyn, who was bully to defend her husband's right to embrace freedom. She was embodied by prisoners of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdelkader Lagtaa
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Sonia Okacha

This film revolves around the path of the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Allabi in the seventies of the last century, but the mouthpiece of Allabi's wife, Jocelyn, who was bully to defend her husband's right to embrace freedom. She was embodied by prisoners of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abdelkader Lagtaa
CAST:  Anas El Baz  •  Sonia Okacha