Renault 12

Comme beaucoup d'enfants d'expatriés, le comédien Mohamed El Khatib a passé ses vacances d'été au Maroc, le pays natal de ses parents. A la mort de sa mère, son oncle lui téléphone au sujet d'une part d'héritage à venir chercher. Pour cela, il achète une Renault 12, une voiture résistante qui lui permettra d'aller au bout de son road-movie.

Shortly after his mother’s passing, playwright and stage director Mohamed El Khatib receives a phone call from his uncle in Bab Berred, the family’s village in the Moroccan Rif, instructing him to come as soon as possible to collect his inheritance – mysteriously insisting that he should make the trip in a Renault 12. Coaxed by his father, El Khatib decides to make the journey from Orléans to Tangier. Structured like a road movie, Renault 12 is also the filmmaker’s quest to discover his own origins, in which he both documents chance encounters and stages situations to bring social, political, and cultural landscapes to light.