Comme une spirale
Short documentary, 28 min, Canada, Lebanon, 2024
SYNOPSIS
“Like a Spiral” is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system.
Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women's voices rise through the film's grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst to exist. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression.
Caught within life's spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
Written and directed by
Lamia Chraibi
Direction of photography
Ariane Lorrain
Edited by
René Roberge
Produced by
Patricia Bergeron
Ghassan Fayad
Productions Leitmotiv
Distributed by
F3M - Les films du 3 mars
SELECTIONS
Vancouver International Film festival 2024
RIDM 2024
RVQC 2025
Filministes 2025
International Film festival of Ottawa 2025
Etnocineca International documentary festival of Vienna 2025
Tarifa Tanger African Film festival 2025
AWARDS
Best documentary wiriting - Filministes 2025