Renault 12

Renault 12 is a cinematographic experience born from a documentary material: my mother’s death. This testimony is a collection of confidences, an intimate epic, a pathway towards death and what follows : ceremonies, the repatriation of a body and administrative constraints.

This film is where I unveil some cultural gaps, between my family from Tangier, myself and hospital environment, thanks to audio and video recordings. Renault 12 is a fragmented, teaching narrative that trace a mourning journey according to its different rituals, on both sides of the Mediterranean. Then, two transit standpoints mingle: the one of a coffin transported from France to Morroco, then the one of a heritage that has to transit from Morroco to France. Renault 12 is a French model of vehicle, highly renowned in Morroco in the seventies for its velocity in the moutain and in hostile topography.