Trances (1981) - (Movie Clip) Hay Mohammedi

Trances (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Nass El Ghiwane

Opening sequence, from Casablanca-born director Ahmed El Maanouni’s highly-regarded documentary on Nass El Ghiwane, the band sometimes known as the “Rolling Stones of North Africa,” from the restored print from Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, Trances, 1981.

Trances (1981) -- (Movie Clip) The Tyrant Sleeps

From a Nass El Ghiwane concert in Tunisia to the celebrated Moroccan band in rehearsal, singer Larbi Batma with colleagues Abderrahman Paco (on banjo) and Omar Sayed, from the documentary by Ahmed El Maanouni, Trances, 1981.