“A caftan have to be survived by the one who wears it. Handed from mom to daughter. Stand the take a look at of time,” we’re informed in a brand new trailer for Maryam Touzani’s “The Blue Caftan.” The drama is Morocco’s decide within the Worldwide Oscar race and focuses on Mina (Lubna Azabal) and Halim (Saleh Bakri), a married couple who run a standard caftan retailer in Morocco. To maintain up with buyer calls for, they rent Youssef (Ayoub Missioui), a proficient apprentice who’s studying about embroidery and tailoring from Halim.

It’s not lengthy earlier than Halim and Youssef type an intense connection, and it’s removed from platonic. The spot depicts the boys trying admiringly at each other’s our bodies. The movie’s synopsis reveals that Mina slowly “realizes how a lot her husband is moved by the presence of the younger man.”

Touzani, who made her characteristic debut with 2019’s “Adam,” has mentioned that “The Blue Caftan” is “above all a movie about love, in regards to the freedom to be who you might be, to like who you wish to love.”

“The Blue Caftan” opens in theaters February 10. The movie gained the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes final yr.