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Hashish

Name: Hashish
Director: Daniel Gräbner
Released: 2002
Duration: 80 min

Representation Score

3.6/10

Limited

2002

Director

Daniel Gräbner

Runtime

80 minutes

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Hashish serves as a profound ethnographic study of the Ketama region in Northern Morocco. The film succeeds by centering a non-Western community, allowing them to present their own complex social, economic, and philosophical systems. While the documentary excels in racial and cultural visibility, it lacks specific information regarding gender dynamics or LGBTQ+ representation. The narrative architecture is built around the impact of a single commodity on a localized social structure. Ultimately, the film functions as a tool for cultural visibility. It challenges dominant Western institutional norms by presenting a functional, self-sustaining social order that operates outside of Anglo-Saxon frameworks.

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Category Breakdown

Does Hashish have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The documentary does not provide evidence regarding the depiction of LGBTQ+ identities. The focus remains on the socio-economic structures of a specific Moroccan village.

How does Hashish portray gender?

Fair

The film offers a communal study of the Ketama people. However, it lacks specific evidence regarding gender-based power dynamics or the subversion of traditional hierarchies.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Hashish?

Excellent

The work provides significant visibility to a North African community. It disrupts the Western-centric gaze by centering the Ketama people as architects of their own social reality.

How does Hashish represent religion and culture?

Good

The film explores cultural complexity by framing hashish as a basis for philosophy and dreams. This challenges Western-centric views on legality and morality through an alternative social order.

Does Hashish include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no documented evidence regarding the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities within this ethnographic study.

Present on Screen

Provides significant visibility to a non-Western, North African community.
Disrupts the Western-centric gaze by centering localized social philosophies.
Challenges Western moral frameworks by presenting hashish as a legitimate social basis.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit evidence regarding the representation of LGBTQ+ identities.
Provides no documented information concerning disability representation.
Offers limited insight into specific gender-based power dynamics or hierarchies.

Official Synopsis

A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, Northern Morocco. The life of the people here has been shaped by the drug hashish for centuries. Hashish as daily work, hash as exchange currency, hashish as business, hashish as basis and philosophy of a social system, hashish as medium for dreams and hashish as reason for stagnation.

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