The Blue Caftan

The Blue Caftan
The Blue Caftan
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Maryam Touzani
Written by	Maryam Touzani; Nabil Ayouch (collaboration);
Produced by	Nabil Ayouch
Starring	Lubna Azabal; Saleh Bakri; Ayoub Missioui;
Cinematography	Virginie Surdej
Edited by	Nicolas Rumpl
Music by	Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Production; companies	Les Films du Nouveau Monde; Ali n' Productions; Velvet Films; Snowglobe; RTBF;
Distributed by	Megarama Distribution (Morocco); Ad Vitam Distribution (France); Cinéart (Belgium); Camera Film (Denmark);
Release dates	26 May 2022 (Cannes); 22 February 2023 (Morocco); 22 March 2023 (France); 29 March 2023 (Belgium); 7 September 2023 (Denmark);
Running time	123 minutes
Countries	France; Morocco; Belgium; Denmark;
Language	Arabic

The Blue Caftan (Arabic: أزرق القفطان, released in France as Le Bleu du caftan) is a 2022 Moroccan Arabic-language drama film directed by Maryam Touzani, and written by Touzani with the collaboration of Nabil Ayouch. It depicts a woman and her closeted gay husband, who run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco, and hire a young man as an apprentice.

The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize in its section. The Moroccan Cinema Center (Centre cinématographique marocain) selected The Blue Caftan to represent Morocco in the 2023 Oscars International Feature Film category, where it made history as the first Moroccan film to be shortlisted for the award.