A Door to the Sky has the distinction of being the first Moroccan feature directed by a woman. A Sufi tale retold in a metaphoric language of today, and beautifully shot, the film tells of a young Europeanized Moroccan woman's rediscovery of her Islamic identity in her own sensitive, individualistic way-as a woman working with other women. Nadia (Zakia Tahiri) arrives from Paris in minidress and tinted hair at the family mansion in Fez to see her dying father, himself a Westernized family patriarch. After his death, having been moved by the chants at his funeral, Nadia makes the empty family mansion a home again, her way-filling it with holy women, runaways, and battered wives. In this way she moves toward enlightenment and gentleness. Writer-director Farida Ben Lyazid also scripted tonight's co-feature, Badis. A Door to the Sky was edited by Moufida Tlatli (The Silences of the Palace, see February 22).