La braise or Al-Jamra (English: The Embers, also known as Nights of Fire)[1] is a 1982 Moroccan film directed by Farida Bourquia in her directorial debut.
[2][3] It was one of only two feature films made in Morocco by female directors in the 1980s, and is considered to be one of the first Moroccan feature films directed by a woman.
[4][5][6] In a mountain village, a father is accused of having raped and killed a local young woman.
He is lynched by the villagers, and his wife dies tragically.
They leave behind three persecuted children — Ali, Maryem, and Brahim — who attempt to uncover the perpetrator of the crime of which their father had been wrongly accused.