Badis is a small fishing village on the Mediterranean coast, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan territory. In 1974 this peninsula was populated by political prisoners of General Franco and their jailers. Badis tells of the daily life in this village, reflecting also on the ambiguous relations between Morocco and Spain through the story of two women, Touria and Moira. Touria is married to the local schoolteacher who suspects her of infidelity and confines her to the house. She befriends Moira, whose Spanish mother fled the village fifteen years earlier, and who herself loves a Spanish soldier. Together the women learn how to dance the flamenco instead of studying the Koran; prisoners in a suffocating world, they attempt to flee together. Told with simplicity and great dignity, making use of the radiant light of the Mediterranean, this is a story of the struggle against isolation and obscurantism.-Marie-Pierre Macia, SFIFF '90