This article sets out to study the role that art can play in preserving memory. In this regard, a good example to serve the purpose would be the cinema of the Moroccan director Hakim BELABBES who tries to mobilize his cinematographic works as a ‘weapon’ to preserve the collective memory of his hometown Bejaad. To this end, the Moroccan filmmaker tries to represent several realistic themes that always allow a revisiting of the past and memory. In his cinema, both in its subjective and realistic dimensions, BELABBES tries to capture time through places, rituals, the testimony of the inhabitants, art and trades, etc. It is a great challenge to resist disappearance, oblivion and death. The article also sheds light on the relationship between the subjectivity of the author of cinema and the success of a work on memory.
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