Meriem Sakrouhi’s eight-minute documentary short “Mon Taxi,” premiering in Tribeca’s “Shorts Program: Where We Belong,” uses a trail of phone messages to hold on to a father-daughter relationship after his death. The Morocco-born filmmaker—an architect turned
The Tribeca Film Festival is arriving with its usual rush of films, shorts, and projects competing for attention—but one eight-minute documentary short feels built for quiet focus.
“Mon Taxi. ” by Morocco-born filmmaker Meriem Sakrouhi. is a portrait of the relationship between a father and a daughter. carried through a series of phone messages Sakrouhi left for her late father. His death didn’t stop her from wanting to reach out and speak to him. Her voice moves alongside imagery of New York City—an adopted home that becomes. frame by frame. part of the message itself.
Sakrouhi doesn’t describe the story as something she set out to script. The film reflects her own trajectory. She wasn’t originally positioned to become a filmmaker; she started as an architect before pivoting to her current career. When her life took her from Morocco to the United States, she kept calling her father every day. That daily thread—insistent. personal. and impossible to replace—sits underneath “Mon Taxi. ” and it’s hard not to feel it in the way the film treats communication as something you can’t fully stop.
Speaking about the project. Sakrouhi talks about her father and her path toward filmmaking. including her shift through life and work that led her to make her home in New York. She frames the city as a place for dreamers who arrive from elsewhere and try to carve out their own route. In her case, that route runs directly to Tribeca.
The short is part of the “Shorts Program: Where We Belong” at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film’s website is available online, and updates can be found through “Mon Taxi”’s Instagram page and Meriem Sakrouhi’s Instagram page.
Her conversation is also available as a video interview embedded from a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_8KHNv4Fw. For anyone heading into Tribeca looking for something that doesn’t just show family—it holds it in real time—“Mon Taxi” is built to stay with you after the phone goes silent.
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8 minutes and it’s about phone messages?? Kinda sounds sad for no reason tbh.
So she kept calling her dad every day even after he died? I mean… how does that even work? Like did she call a voicemail or what. That’s really intense though.
Wait I thought this was a normal feature film about taxi stuff in New York, like “Mon Taxi” = cab vibes. But it’s like father/daughter phone messages?? The title is misleading, not gonna lie. Also Tribeca is always doing the most with those shorts.
I don’t know, I feel like calling your dead dad every day is either beautiful or not healthy, depending on the details. The article says his death “didn’t stop her” so I’m assuming she literally recorded messages before and then just played them back with city shots? Also architecture to filmmaking is so random lol but kinda makes sense since NY is about dreams and all that. Might watch it if it’s really just quiet focus, but 8 minutes goes by fast.