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.
DISTINCTIONS
Best documentary wiriting - Filministes 2025
Best short film - Mizna Twin Cities 2025
Finalist - IRIS Quebec Cinema for best short documentary 2025
SELECTIONS
Vancouver International Film festival, Vancouver Canada 2024
RIDM, Montreal, Canada 2024
RVQC, Montreal, Canada 2025
Filministes, Montreal, Canada 2025
International Film festival of Ottawa, Canada 2025
Etnocineca International documentary festival of Vienna, Austria 2025
Tarifa Tanger African Film festival, Tarifa, Spain 2025
Bucharest Feminist film festival, Bucharest, Romania 2025
Morocco Shorts, Rabat, Morocco 2025
Twin Cities, Mizna Arab Film festival, Minesotta USA 2025
International experimental film festival, Athens, Greece 2025
Revolutions per minute, Harvard, Boston USA 2025
Rencontres du Film court de Madagascira, Madagascar 2025
Écran du réél, Beirut, Lebanon, 2025
Brussels International Women’s film festival, Brussels Belgium 2025
Human Screen Festival, Krama Tunisia 2025
Arab Film Festival, San Francisco USA 2025
Ouaga coté court Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 2025
New Filmmakers Los Angeles USA 2025
Cinemania, Montreal, Canada 2025
BROADCAST AND PLATFORM
MEDIA COVERAGE
TEAM
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