Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets is a 2000 Moroccan crime drama film that tells the story of several homeless boys. It was awarded in the 2000 Stockholm Film Festival and in the 2000 Amiens International Film Festival.
Kwita (Mounim Kbab), Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussoune) and Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) are homeless street boys in Casablanca. In a television interview Ali says that he ran away from home when he heard his mother say that she wanted to sell his eyes for profit. An old fisherman (Mohamed Majd) has given him a job as sailor; they will leave soon. Ali has dreams of living on an island far from Casablanca, where there are two suns.
However, before he is picked up by the fisherman Ali is killed by gang members. His friends hide his body, and vow to bury him "like a prince." Kwita is the boy who masterminds the idea, but his resolve doesn't always match his courage, so it's Omar who works his way into Ali's old house, where Ali's mother (Amal Ayouch) works as a prostitute. Just finished with a customer, she says that Ali lied in the interview, and she shows Omar Ali's nice room.
Before the trio's quest is over, Kwita meets a girl he falls for and visits a cemetery where his lack of religious training ("I went to a mosque once") is criticized; Omar briefly returns to his former gang, which instigated Ali's murder; and Boubker—the smallest and most vulnerable of the three—threatens to kill himself but recovers his sense of self and helps the old fisherman on his boat.