production

Summer Rains
DIRECTOR: Gabriella Choueifaty
20 MINUTES I france, LEBANON
As the 2006 war rages in Lebanon, 13-year-old Sariah, her older sister and her mother try to lead a seemingly normal life, confined to their mountain home overlooking Beirut. As time seems to stand still, each of them tries to escape this confined environment causing tensions to resurface.
About
Production Films de Force Majeure, Né à Beyrouth
Release 2024
Gallery
Support
CNC (audiovisual), Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (prod.), France Télévisions, Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF), MEDIA Creative Europe, Région Sud (dev.), City of Marseille, Procirep Angoa
In partnership with
Catalogue du Sensible
This project was selected to
WarshatAflam 2019 (International Arabic Film Fest.) with the support of CNC – Talents en court and Région Sud, Euro Connection 2022 (Clermont-Ferrand short film Festival)
Crew
Written & directer by Gabriella Choueifaty
DoP Mark Khalifeh
Focus puller Jad Abou Abdo
Sound engineer Jean-Marie Salque
Boom operator Jonas Braasch
1st AD Mona Khaouli
Continuity Najwa Harb
Location manager Jad Nehmeh
Art director Riwa Baroud
Production manager Lebanon Aya Kanj
Postproduction coordinator Nora Bertone
Producers Jérôme Nunes, Pierre Sarraf
With Jil Moukarzel, Manal Issa, Maria Douaihy & Khodr Ellaik
Technical sheet
Fiction
Format HD
Sound 5.1, stereo
Length 20 minutes
Original language French, Arabic
Colour