About Some Meaningless Events is a 1974 docu-fiction film directed by Mostafa Derkaoui.
[1][2][3][4][5] Moroccan authorities banned the film after its first and only screening in Paris.
[6][7] Widely believed to have been lost, negative prints were uncovered in the archives of the Filmoteca De Catalunya in Barcelona in 2016 by researcher Lea Morin.
[15] A group of filmmakers in search of a theme to deal with interview young bypassers in Casablanca about their expectations and their relationship to Moroccan cinema.
When they witness a crime committed by an exploited dockworker, who involuntarily kills his mobster boss, they decide to investigate the crime's motives, which ultimately leads them to some deep reflection on their role of cinema in Moroccan society.