30 min, DCP, 3:2
French and Polish, Color and Black and White

Miraculous Accident is a transtemporal film that narrates the love story between Nadir, a Moroccan student at the Łódź Film School in 1968, his Jewish editing teacher Edyta, and their shared relationship with Jarek, Nadir’s best friend and Edyta’s protégé.

Nadir is among a group of North African students sent to study communist filmmaking techniques as part of the Eastern Bloc’s support for anti-imperialist struggles. Despite her opposition to Zionism, Edyta is forced to leave Poland due to the political rift between Poland and Israel following the Six-Day War or An-Naksa, 'The Setback'.

In 2024, Nadir returns to the school to make a film after discovering a forgotten letter Edyta wrote to him from Haifa in 1989. The film mourns the cruelty of nations, birthing rare miracles—accidental loves—only to crush them before they breathe.

Inspired by the life of former Moroccan student, poet, and filmmaker Abdelkader Lagtaâ—who also plays Nadir in the film—Miraculous Accident weaves its plot through original footage and extracts from 1960s student films by Lagtaâ and his peers.