Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Year: 2015
Duration: 98'
When Nada returns home to Lebanon, she feels out of place, a stranger. She had left to escape the civil war and now that she has returned everything seems changed and unfamiliar. There is only one place where she feels at home: an abandoned building whose walls are falling down, where she can sense the presence of her grandfather, who disappeared mysteriously during the war. Something happened between those walls, violence was committed; Nada wants to find out more and puts herself on the line. [cg]
Biography
film director
Jihane Chouaib
Jihane Chouaib (Beirut, Lebanon) spent her childhood in Mexico, where her family settled fleeing the civil war. During her teenage years, she traveled to France where she studied philosophy and discovered theater. She immediately developed a strong relationship to writing, and worked as a screenwriter. Meanwhile, she directed several short and medium length films shot in France, including the highly acclaimed Under my Bed, presented at the Critic’s Week during the Cannes Film Festival, in 2005. She directed in 2012 the feature documentary Dreamed Country, shot in Lebanon.
FILMOGRAFIA
Otto ou des confitures (mm, 2000), Sous mon lit (mm, 2005), Cyprine (ep. Dru, cm, 2009), Pays rêvé (doc., 2012), Go Home (2016).
Declaration
film director
“‘Go home’ is something you get told a lot when you are an emigrant. ‘Go home, go back to where you come from.’ And one day you go back to your home country, and you hear ‘go home’ again. ‘You’re not from there anymore.’ Because you have changed, and because the country has changed. What is ‘home’ today? Is there a new way to define it? What does it mean to belong, in a time of constant migration?”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Jihane Chouaib
fotografia/cinematography
Tommaso Fiorilli
montaggio/film editing
Ludo Troch
scenografia/production design
Zeina Saab De Melero
costumi/costume design
Béatrice Harb
musica/music
Béatrice Wick, Bachar Mar Khalife
suono/sound
Henri Maïkoff, Béatrice Wick, Aline Gravoy, Emmanuel Croset
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Golshifteh Farahani (Nada), Maximilien Seweryn (Sam), François Nour (Jalal), Mireille Maalouf (la zia/aunt Nour), Julia Kassar (Colette), Mohamad Akil (Costa)
produttore/producer
Nathalie Trafford
produzione/production
Paraíso Production Diffusion
coproduttori/coproducers
Samir, Marie Besson
coproduzione/coproduction
Dschoint Ventschr, Eklektik Productions
contatti/contacts
Wide
Matthias Angoulvant
ma@widemanagement.com
www.widemanagement.com
Jihane Chouaib
fotografia/cinematography
Tommaso Fiorilli
montaggio/film editing
Ludo Troch
scenografia/production design
Zeina Saab De Melero
costumi/costume design
Béatrice Harb
musica/music
Béatrice Wick, Bachar Mar Khalife
suono/sound
Henri Maïkoff, Béatrice Wick, Aline Gravoy, Emmanuel Croset
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Golshifteh Farahani (Nada), Maximilien Seweryn (Sam), François Nour (Jalal), Mireille Maalouf (la zia/aunt Nour), Julia Kassar (Colette), Mohamad Akil (Costa)
produttore/producer
Nathalie Trafford
produzione/production
Paraíso Production Diffusion
coproduttori/coproducers
Samir, Marie Besson
coproduzione/coproduction
Dschoint Ventschr, Eklektik Productions
contatti/contacts
Wide
Matthias Angoulvant
ma@widemanagement.com
www.widemanagement.com
