Gabriella Choueifaty

  1. WORKS

    2006 (2018–2024)
Dark is a color (2020–)
Non-disclosure agreement: Focus to infinity (2021) 17th October: A story (2019)The winners (2016–2019)

TEXTS

How to make stones weep: a ? reading of Jalal Toufic (2024)

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      2006 2018–2024
      Film, 23 min 
      Produced by Films de Force Majeure

       As the 2006 war rages outside, teenager Sariah, her older sister Nayla, and their mother Zeina try to maintain a semblance of normalcy in their mountain home overlooking Beirut. While images of the war-torn city run in a loop on the television, tensions between the three women soon resurface.


      The film follows four characters waiting for the July War to end. The centers around a conceptual figure Walid Sadek theorizes as “the witness who knows too much,” reflecting an experience I personally endured on July 12th, when I watched from the balcony of our apartment in Sassine as Israeli planes relentlessly shelled Dahieh, Beirut’s southern suburbs.

      It also portrays the reality of living through the war from the seemingly safe and bucolic distance of the Lebanese mountains, caught between the distant sounds of planes and bombs and the omnipresent live images of them falling on the city below.

      SCREENINGS


      2025
      • Rhode Island International Film Festival – Flickers (USA) – U.S. Premiere
      • Festival Côté Court (Pantin, France)
      • Düzce Konuralp Film Festivali (Turkey)
      • Vienna Shorts (Austria)
      • AFSAD Days – International Short Film Festival (Turkey)
      • Aflam – Cinéma des mondes arabes (France)
      • FilmFest Dresden – International Short Film Festival (Germany) – Special Mention
      • Festival International Music & Cinéma Marseille (France)
      • FIFDH – Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains de Genève (Switzerland)
      • Semana de Cine de Medina del Campo (Spain)
      • Paris Courts Devant (France) – French Premiere

      2024
      • ZINEBI 66 – International Festival of Short Film of Bilbao (Spain) – European Premiere, Best Short Film Award
      • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland) – World Premiere

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