EMBODIED CHORUS
2023
Logline | Danielle’s raw filmed diary and Moe’s vibrant queer memory of living with a Sexually Transmitted Infection, ignite a collaborative exploration of bodies, intimacy, and shame.
Lebanon - Germany - Luxembourg | Arabic | Creative Documentary / Hybrid | 72'
With | Basma Baydoun, Caroline Hatem, Cyril Kokozaki, Firas Hallak, Hashem Adnan, Danielle Davie & Mohamad Sabbah
Producers | Yara Abi Nader (madame le tapis) and Julia Wagner (HEARTWAKE films)
Co-Producers | Helene Walland & Chris Neumann (Wild Fang Films)
Associate Producers | The Zarazir Brothers (madame le tapis)
With the Support of | Film Fund Luxembourg, IDFA Bertha Europe Fund, AFAC Arab fund for Arts and Culture, OIF Fonds Image de la Francophonie, CNC Emergency Fund for Lebanon, Springboard El Gouna, IMS Media Support Denmark, IDFA Bertha Classic Fund, BUSAN ACF/AND Asian Cinema Fund, the Lebanese Film Fund, PostOffice Beirut, Cinema Al Fouad Feature Documentary Grants
Line Producer | Liliane Rahal
Writers/Directors | Danielle Davie & Mohamad Sabbah
Director of Photography | Michael Terhorst
Sound Engineers | Nadim Maalouf, Victor Bresse
Editors | Rana Sabbagha & Vartan Avakian
Sound Design & Mixing | Lama Sawaya - DB Studios
Music | Joseph Junior Sfeir (june as)
VFX | Nadim Chartouni - The Council for Visual Affairs
SFX & Stop Motion | Nadim Sawma
Colorist | Chrystel Elias
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2023 | IDFA The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, in Amsterdam - Netherlands
2024 | Luxembourg City Film Festival, in Luxembourg - Luxembourg
J'IRAI LÀ-BAS
IN DEVELOPMENT
Logline | In 2017, I discovered footage shot in Lebanon in 1986-1987 by my brother Patrick Touchard. He was a prominent cameraman and had a project to make a film about his colleagues, war reporters. These men, whose profession led them to live far from home and take risks, were part of his environment. Like him, they made difficult life choices and had strong friendships linked to danger. In 1987, my brother passed away and his project remained unfinished.
"J'irai Là-Bas" is the story of my journey into my brother's footage, my encounter with the men he worked with, and Lebanon as I will discover it today.
Lebanon - France | French - Arabic | Documentary | 80'
Producer | Christophe Camoirano (Girelle Production)
Co-Producers | The Zarazir Brothers (madame le tapis)
With the Support of | CNC (aide préparation FSA), Région SUD (aide aux projets groupés), Ciclic - Centre Val de Loire (Aide écriture)
Writers/Directors | Rosine Touchard and Danielle Davie
THE SILENCE OF THE PLAIN
IN POST-PRODUCTION
Logline | An unsolved massacre in the director's family that took place when she was not even two years old. It's a film about growing up with war, growing up with fear, growing up with death, and the implications of an unachieved true reconciliation and mourning on our contemporary society.
Lebanon | Arabic | Documentary | 68'
Producers | The Zarazir Brothers (madame le tapis)
With the Support of | Aflamuna (Beirut DC), OIF Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Filmlab Palestine, CNC Emergency Fund for Lebanon, Springboard El Gouna, The Royal Film Commission Jordan, Screen Institute-Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Culture
Writer/Director | Zeina Sfeir
BORNSTARS
IN POST-PRODUCTION
Logline | Four teenagers in need of money believe that
Lebanon is ready for its first erotic website. Is Lebanon
really ready?
USA | Arabic | Comedy | 110'
Producers | Chady Eli Mattar & Scott C. Silver (Silvatar Media)
Line Producers | The Zarazir Brothers (madame le tapis)
Writer/Director | Caroline Labaki
TRIP TO JERUSALEM
IN FINANCING
Logline | 1941 – Far away from the barbarity of the War, in Lebanon. Following a Sunday lunch that goes sour, Matile, mother of eleven, imposes her laws on both the General of the French Mandate and the Head of the Church, by shaking the established customs.
Lebanon - France | Arabic - French - Syriac | Dark Comedy | 110'
Producers | The Zarazir Brothers (madame le tapis)
Co-Producer | Nadia Turincev (Easy Riders Films)
With the Support of | Red Sea Fund, OIF Fonds Image de la Francophonie, Film Independent, Global Media Makers, American Film Showcase, Lebanese Film Fund, the Lebanese Ministry of Culture, CINEMED, Association Beaumarchais SACD, Titrafilm, L'Institut Français du Liban, EAVE, Smart ESA, Arab Cinema Center, BerlinAIR and Fondation Liban Cinema
Writers/Directors | The Zarazir Brothers