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GLASS CHILDREN (premiered at Festival Contre Sens February 27th, 2026)

Mixed-media stage play – Psychological Drama

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

A sterile psychiatric reunion fractures into a haunting excavation of memory, Glass Children follows two estranged sisters forced into a one-hour monitored encounter to confront the violent legacy of their mother. As their conversation unfolds, reality begins to distort — projections bleed into the present, testimonies unravel, and the line between truth and survival blurs.

What begins as an attempt at closure spirals into revelation, exposing buried trauma, conflicting memories, and a devastating truth neither of them can escape.

Glass Children explores how indoctrination reshapes identity, how memory protects and betrays, and how survival can fracture into entirely different realities depending on who gets to tell the story.

Themes: Childhood trauma, memory distortion, familial indoctrination, truth vs perception, guilt and survival

COLONY COLLAPSE

Short film – Psychological Horror / Drama
Written by Mouad Ezzahir

In a rigid family where identity is stripped away and replaced by assigned roles, Colony Collapse follows a teenage boy who is forced to take his father’s place after his sudden death. What begins as quiet adaptation soon mutates into something deeply disturbing, as the family structure corrects itself with mechanical precision.

As the son inhabits his new role with unsettling ease, the boundaries between parent and child dissolve, and grief is suffocated by obligation. When the mother can no longer reconcile reality with the system she’s trapped in, her desperate act fails to break the cycle — only accelerating it.

Colony Collapse explores the horror of systems that sustain themselves at any cost, where individuality is erased, grief is suppressed, and identity becomes something inherited rather than chosen.

Themes: Loss of identity, familial systems as organisms, inherited roles, repression of grief, dehumanization

WAHYA NARI

Short film – Sci-Fi / Psychological Thriller (in Moroccan Darija)

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

Set in a dim, cluttered observatory, Wahyanari follows two young men on a routine night shift that slowly unravels into existential dread when a strange astronomical reading appears — one that shouldn’t exist. As they attempt to rationalize the anomaly, tension rises between skepticism and belief, science and faith.

What starts as casual conversation spirals into panic as the implications of the discovery become impossible to ignore. Time tightens, reality feels increasingly unstable, and the question shifts from what is happening to whether they were ever meant to witness it at all.

Wahyanari explores the fragility of human understanding when confronted with the unknown, and how belief systems — scientific or spiritual — begin to collapse when faced with something beyond comprehension.

Themes: Existential fear, science vs faith, cosmic uncertainty, paranoia, the limits of human perception

STANDARD PROCEDURE

Anthology Series – Psychological Drama / Absurdist Thriller

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

A dialogue-driven anthology set in confined spaces, Standard Procedure transforms everyday interactions into slow-burning psychological breakdowns. Each episode begins with a mundane, familiar system — an HR interview, a therapy session, a customer service call — only to spiral into something invasive, surreal, and quietly horrifying.

Through a recurring protagonist navigating a series of institutional encounters, the series exposes how “normal procedures” become tools of control, humiliation, and emotional erosion in a world obsessed with compliance.

Standard Procedure explores the violence of bureaucracy, the fragility of identity under observation, and the quiet horror of systems that know you better than you know yourself.

Themes: Institutional control, surveillance, social performance, identity erosion, absurdism, psychological entrapment

OBSOLETE

Short Film – Psychological Horror / Experimental Drama

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

A ritualistic descent into bodily awareness and control, Obsolete follows a man whose body begins to respond to unseen forces with precise, almost instructional logic. What starts as a simple wound evolves into a disturbing pattern: pain appears, grows, and completes itself only when observed — as if his body is teaching him how to suffer.

Through minimal dialogue and clinical imagery, the film blurs the line between discipline and self-destruction, turning the body into both subject and instrument of an unknown system.

Obsolete explores the relationship between control and submission, the body as a site of memory, and the quiet horror of learning to participate in your own undoing.

Themes: Body autonomy, ritual, control vs submission, self-inflicted systems, dissociation, physical manifestation of trauma

WHY YOU NEVER BECAME A MOTHER

Feature film – Horror / Psychological Drama

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

A soft-lit queer love story that dissolves into full-blown body horror, Why You Never Became a Mother follows Lexi, a drama teacher whose maternal longing spirals into obsession. As her connection with Dana deepens, so does a surreal, monstrous transformation — one that redefines motherhood as something visceral, cosmic, and deeply unsettling.

Why You Never Became a Mother explores how trauma nests inside the body, how community can turn into cult, and how motherhood (in its rawest form) can be both monstrous and holy.

Themes:
Obsessive motherhood, queer longing, female monstrosity, body horror, delusion as devotion

HUSH (Short Play)

Psychological drama – Stage

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

Set in a cold, sunlit apartment washed in Scandinavian minimalism, Hush explores paranoia, creative betrayal, and the haunting aftermath of not listening. When a tense artistic disagreement between two close friends escalates, silence becomes fatal. One of them takes his life mid-sentence, the other is left to decode the words he failed to hear, spiraling into obsession, guilt, and a final violent unraveling.

A quiet, brutal play about miscommunication, grief, and how art consumes the people who make it.

Themes:
Mental illness, artistic ego, grief, miscommunication, paranoia, guilt, silence as violence

FULL STOMACH
(COMPLETED)

Short film - Psychological horror /Dark comedy

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

Lola and Elle are two design students whose friendship slowly deepens into intimacy. When Elle invites Lola home for dinner, things shift. The apartment is warm, her mother is kind, and Elle is charming. But in the basement, something waits. Something on all fours. Something Elle calls family.

Full Stomach is a horror short about obedience, girlhood, and the moment intimacy tips into violence. It starts with softness, ends in blood, and lingers in your throat like a swallowed secret.

Themes
Dark domesticity, generational trauma, control and submission, predator-as-pet, queer intimacy, trust and betrayal, horror in routine

000-733-3666

Short film - Psychological horror /Found footage

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

Told entirely through the cold, glitchy eye of CCTV and webcam footage, 000-733-3666 follows Daniel, a suicide hotline operator whose gentle voice hides darker intentions. When 14-year-old Alex calls in, a tense exchange unfolds,what begins as support quickly becomes manipulation, as Daniel’s true identity and motives come into focus.

A slow-burn horror grounded in the mundanity of tech interfaces, grooming patterns, and the terrifying intimacy of being listened to. By the time the line goes dead, the damage is irreversible.

Themes
Predation, parasocial dynamics, obsession, surveillance horror, grooming, queerness and power, performance of care, internet-age intimacy

A ROOM FOR TWO

Feature film – Horror / Psychological Drama

Written by Mouad Ezzahir

When Leo reconnects with his estranged younger brother Dani after over a decade apart, the meeting feels awkward but hopeful. In the cramped stillness of Dani’s Paris apartment, old memories surface—and so do old lies.

As the brothers navigate their fractured bond, a darker truth begins to emerge: Dani wasn’t sent away to be healed, but to be protected. And Leo’s return isn’t about forgiveness—it’s about control.

Themes:
Repressed trauma · Familial betrayal · Obsession and denial · Mental health and manipulation · The claustrophobia of memory

Full Stomach (Short Film) – Trailer