production
2006
DIRECTOR: Gabriella Choueifaty
23 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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, 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
Music composer Shakeeb Abu Hamdan 1st AD Mona Khaouli
Continuity Najwa Harb
Location manager Jad Nehmeh
Art director Riwa Baroud
Editing Aurélie Jourdan, Sarah Zaanoun 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 23 minutes
Original language French, Arabic
Colour