Behind Closed Doors
Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage
Yakout Elhababi / Feature Documentary / Morocco, Qatar / 80 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Women, Environmental, Biography, Social Issues, Youth, Psychological, Children, Creative Documentary
Synopsis
‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised regions of northern Morocco. Only one thing grows in their brutal climate: kif. This taboo is seen through the eyes of the children, who learn the gestures of growing the illicit crop before their mother tongue. This is a film about parents fighting to provide role models against all odds. They inherited the lands, and stand somewhere between the fear of selling out their roots and the dream of fleeing.
Credits
- Director
- Yakout Elhababi
- Screenwriter
- Yakout Elhababi
- Producer
- Vincent Melilli
- Production Company
- ESAV
About the Director
Yakout Elhababi graduated from the ESAV Marrakech film school in 2010, and INSAS Brussels in 2013, where she studied editing. She has worked on several Moroccan narrative and documentary productions, and also works as a freelance editor. Elhababi is currently developing ‘Behind the Doors’, her first feature-length documentary, set in her home region of northern Morocco.