FROM AFAC:
ADFP 2012 winning projects are:
Development:
Project Title: Contrepoids
Director: Selim Mourad
Producer: Jana Wehbe
Country: Lebanon
As the apparent last male descendant of his
family, the filmmaker is researching his family tree in the hopes of
discovering a male descendant other than himself to ensure the continuity of
the family name into the next generation. Being attracted to men, he does not
intend to marry. His search, however, is unfruitful and he begins to wonder
about conceiving a child through a woman and working around the inherited
social norms of hetero-normative family life.
Projects
in production and post-production
Project Title: A Maid for Each
Director: Maher Abi Samra
Producer: Jinane Dagher
Country: Lebanon
Many Lebanese households employ an African or
Asian live-in domestic worker. There are currently 200,000 migrant domestic
workers to the 4 million resident Lebanese. The market for domestic work in
Lebanon is segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the
worker, where the Lebanese employer is master and the worker is akin to
property owned by the master. Through the three characters of Zein, Rima and
Lati, the film aims to dissect the entire system and bring a deeper awareness
to a reality that, for the Lebanese majority, is largely ignored and taken for
granted.
Project Title: Eye of the Architect
Director: Nadim Mishlawi
Country: Lebanon
The documentary explores the work and ideas of
Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury as he guides us through the paradoxes of
Beirut. The film will examine Khoury’s distinctive approach to urbanism, and
through analyzing the contextual aspects of his work, will also explore the
ideas of identity and liberalism in an exceedingly unstable socio-political
environment.
