Road Trip
Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage
LINDA QIBAA / Feature Documentary / Morocco, France, Qatar / 70 min / Original Language: Arabic, French, Moroccan / Interests: Road Trip, Immigration, Identity, Creative Documentary
Synopsis
Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage his home and its frequent customers his family. Friends and customers mingle there, coming for repairs as much as for coffee. Now, faced with the prospect of retiring and leaving his beloved garage, Khammar resists the change. Khammar is my father. After 30 years apart, we have reconnected and slowly tamed the distance between us. When I asked him to come with me to Morocco, the country of our origins, he accepted. He hadn’t been there for 20 years and wanted to see Casablanca again and sell a flat he still owned to buy a small house in the south of France. I want to see my parents’ home village, which has now disappeared, submerged by a dam lake.
Credits
- Director
- Linda Qibaa
- Screenwriter
- Linda Qibaa
- Producer
- Jean David Lefebvre, Jean Marie Gigon
- Production Company
- Abel Aflam, SaNoSi Productions
About the Director
Linda Qibaa is a French-Moroccan filmmaker based in Marseille. She studied Photography (BA), Philosophy (BA), and then Comparative Research in Anthropology, Sociology, and History (MA). She gained experience as a set assistant in Paris and as a production assistant at Films de Force Majeure in Marseille. She collaborated as a video artist with choreographers, performers, and visual artists. Her work has been presented at the Ballet National de Marseille, the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, and the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide. She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary, 'Road-Trip,' which was selected for a writing residency at FIDADOC in Agadir in 2021, Moulin d'Andé-CECI in 2022, and Ateliers de l'Atlas in Marrakech in 2023.