'White Lies') is a 2023 Arabic-language documentary film directed, written, produced and edited by Asmae El Moudir.

The film explores the director's search for truth in her family background, combining personal and national history.

[8] Unclear about her family's lack of personal photos, director Asmae El Moudir learns that her grandmother Zahra strictly prohibited the creation of any images or photographs.

El Moudir and her father Mohamed open an atelier where they craft a set of miniature clay figurines that recreate her childhood street in Sebata district in Casablanca.

El Moudir narrates the film from her perspectives as a child and as an adult, melding fiction and reality to show how unreliable memories can complicate a person's identity.

She began shooting with her small camera in 2018, then went in search of financing for a bigger production and to secure the director of photography.

The notes further add: "Their repertoire is drawn from the melting pot of Moroccan culture and poetry, but also from Sufi texts from great religious figures of Islam.

[16] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 76 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.