This Little Father Obsession
Selim Mourad / Lebanon / 2016 / Czech Premiere / 104 min.
synopsis
Accompanied by his father, the film’s main protagonist and director sets out in search of a distant relative. But all the filmmaker sees in his future is the end: He is infertile and gay, the last member of his family’s youngest generation, and their family home in Beirut is slated for demolition. The film records the various ways he and the people around him deal with this situation.
biography
Sélim Mourad (1987) studied film at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut. In 2016, he debuted with his feature-length documentary This Little Father Obsession, which was banned in Lebanon because of its look at the taboo subject of homosexuality
more about film
| director: | Selim Mourad |
| producer: | Jana Wehbe |
| photography: | Bachir Hajj, Jad Tannous, Selim Mourad |
| editing: | Carine Doumit |
| sound: | Lama Sawaya |
contact
JANA WEHBE / Beirut / Lebanon / +961 7096 38 55 / wehbejana@yahoo.com
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2018 |
| section: | Lebanon: Between Ashes and Roses |
| format: | DCP |
| language: | Arabic |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour and B&W |
Info
| director: | Selim Mourad |
| original title: | This Little Father Obsession |
| country: | Lebanon |
| year: | 2016 |
| running time: | 104 min. |
