Family in Exile
Synopsis
Family in Exile is an intimate documentary, set in Morocco, about the conflicts within the filmmaker’s family. It is a daughter's quest to understand her father’s refusal, over many years, to interact with her and her mother. Through a series of revealing conversations with family members, stories touching on gender tensions, religious beliefs, and parent/child relationships are evoked. It is a personal visual letter of resistance by a daughter to a dictatorial father.
Credits
Writer/Director/Producer: Fatima Matousse
Assistant Director: Fatima Hajbi
Co-Producer: Soufiane Idelcadi, Mohammed Ambribet
Director of Photography: Fatima Matousse
Audio Recordists: Fatima Hajbi, Fatima Matousse
Production Assistants: Hassna Zakir, Fatima Hajbi
Editor: Fatima Matousse
Graphic Design: Hicham Boujja
Colorist: Hicham Boujja
Sound Designer: Quentin Chiappetta
Translation: Fatima Matousse
Voice-over recordist: Hatim Belyamani
CCNY Advisors: Andrea Weiss, Babak Rassi, Antonio Tibaldi
Sponsored by: Fulbright
Cast
Aicha Saadouni
Fatima Ait Abdelmoumen
Hassna Zakir
Bio
Fatima Matousse is a Moroccan independent filmmaker studying an MFA in Documentary Film at the City College of New York. After spending several years working as a program manager for several Non-Profit Organizations in Morocco, Fatima decided to become a visual storyteller. She obtained the Fulbright Scholarship to travel to New York to pursue her career. Over the past years, Fatima won several grants that allowed her to participate in various trainings in Turkey, Germany, and the U.S.A. Matousse holds an MA in Cultural and Media Studies from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fez which concluded with a thesis titled “Rewriting Her Story Through Documentary films: A Feminist and Postcolonial Approach to Ali Essafi and Dalila Ennadre's Documentaries” where she focused on the history of marginalized women in Morocco. Fatima is currently in post-production for her film debut titled Family in Exile which chronicles stories within her own family.
