New York, January 29, 2019
MONSTERS|96min, written and directed by Aksel Rifman, an Amazigh filmmaker from the Rif, selected to be premiered at 8th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival in New York city.
MONSTERS is a psychological thriller shot in Morocco about three masked men, The Boss, The Brute and The Loser, who invade a rich family in their home in broad daylight to steal their money. But nothing is what it appears.
The film is selected in the official competition, competing together with 10 other films. The event concludes on February 23rd with a glittering awards ceremony and hot red carpet gala at NYC’s premier nightclub.
MONSTERS will be shown on Sunday, Feb 17 at 9:15pm at the Cinema Village located at 22 East 12th Street, after the screening, there will be Q&A with the writer/director Aksel Rifman.
Aksel Rifman is a film director from Rif in northern Morocco who won the Best Screenplay Award in the Meknes TV Festival for his first TV movie “The Killing Silence”, Aksel has also acted as a screenwriter, cinematographer, and a director in various projects in Spain, USA and Morocco over the last ten years.
