'For Bread Alone' to be screened in Cannes

"For Bread Alone" the movie, based on the Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri's renowned novel, will be on the list of the 58th Cannes Film Festival that will take place on May 11-22.

The movie is still on the mixing stage, said the main character of the movie Moroccan Hollywood actor Said Taghmaoui.

The Italian-funded film was shot in Ouarzazate studios (southern Morocco).

Mohamed Choukri's "For Bread Alone," an autobiography written in 1973, describes his difficult early childhood in Tangier back-alleys.