In "Yalla, Baba," Angie Obeid takes her 75-year-old father on a road trip. Photo courtesy of the owner.
Angie Obeid, 34, director of the feature-length documentary Yalla, Baba, sets out to retrace the 4,000-kilometer journey her father, Mansour, took 42 years ago from Brussels to Beirut. Now 75, Mansour joins his daughter on a trip that becomes much more than a recreation of the past — it’s a shared discovery. Along the way, father and daughter begin to truly know each other, learn tolerance, and surprise one another.But this isn’t the same road, nor the same world. The route — once straightforward — is now fractured by the upheavals of history. Some countries have disappeared; new borders have been drawn. Authoritarian regimes, wars and forced migration have reshaped the map they try to follow.“I found myself in Brussels, where my father would call me almost every day and talk about this famous trip he took with his friends,” Obeid said....
Angie Obeid, 34, director of the feature-length documentary Yalla, Baba, sets out to retrace the 4,000-kilometer journey her father, Mansour, took 42 years ago from Brussels to Beirut. Now 75, Mansour joins his daughter on a trip that becomes much more than a recreation of the past — it’s a shared discovery. Along the way, father and daughter begin to truly know each other, learn tolerance, and surprise one another.But this isn’t the same road, nor the same world. The route — once straightforward — is now fractured by the upheavals of history. Some countries have disappeared; new borders have been drawn. Authoritarian regimes, wars and forced migration have reshaped the map they try to follow.“I found myself in Brussels, where my father would call me almost every day and talk about this famous trip he took with his...
