La Base
“Social-realist sci-fi from the taxi center around a Paris airport that looks more like a run-down space base where an incredible cast of characters cross each other's paths.”
CPH:DOX
With the cameras of their smartphones, Parisian taxi drivers chronicle the Base Arrière Taxi, a gigantic isolated transit hub on the outskirts of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. Here, more and more aging drivers, immigrants from all corners of the world, spend long hours waiting to be dispatched to the terminals. Here they find refuge from fatigue and the fierce competition from the metropolis. Here, suspended in space and time, they foster community life to escape the decline of their trade and the fast-changing world.
Feature length documentary, 72 minutes, 2023, France
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World premiere at Cinema du Reel 2023, Paris, awarded Youth Jury Cine + Prize.
International premiere at CPH:DOX 2024 Next:Wave competition, Copenhagen
Ecrans Documentaires Festival 2023, Paris, France - Special Jury Mention
Traces de vie Festival 2023, Clermont Ferrand, France
Filmer le travail Festival 2023, Poitiers, France
National cinema release in France on 3 April
Producer: Quentin Laurent, Les Films d’Oeil Sauvage