LabMed 2019

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The class of 2019 was hosted in Tangier, Morocco, from March 1 to 8, 2019, in partnership with the Moroccan Film Festival and the Moroccan Film Center.

The second session took place in Marseille, from June 15 to 22, 2019.

The third session took place in Marseille, November 23 to 30, 2019.

Resident Projects from This Edition

Luzia

LUZIA is going to be fifty years old and has just met Ivan, who inspires her and gives her proofs of love, even if sporadic. But there is the dizziness of imminent death, a secret, and the promise disintegrates. Ivan disappears – for LUZIA it is an abyss, a bottomless pit. She will hang on and face the unknown. This is the story of LUZIA and a transformative experience that will liberate her, the profound metamorphosis of a being who accepts that there is probably no other way out, except for the optimists.

Beirut country club

In an upscale country club located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the story of a love triangle between Amal Tawil, a 30-year-old middle-class woman, Saïd Itani, a tennis teacher, and Léa Farés, an 18-year-old teenager who is none other than Amal's future sister-in-law. Like a premonitory sign, the birth of this love triangle takes place on the day when, in the club, the bones of Palestinian fighters who died during the civil war are dug up. The resurgence of the violence of the past will contaminate the three protagonists who will each upset their moral codes as this love triangle progresses. Soon, the only solution to regain balance will have to be through the murder of one of them.

Sirocco ou l'aventure de la Pylarica

In the spring of 1961, two Italians from Morocco embarked on a mission to rescue a mysterious shipwrecked on the shores of the Atlantic Sahara. A series of inexplicable events block their path to personal glory. Adversity, betrayal, disappointment will be their daily bread. But the Sahara is also the scene of a human adventure which leads them to reach their most extreme limits. They confront their own conscience and bitterly realize that the desert reflects their own failure. Will they be able to accept the real price?

De peur qu'il ne se sauve

It's the story of a guy who does everything to make his dream come true. It's the story of a guy who when his dream comes true will do everything, everything, to destroy it. It's the story of a man who needs the love of a woman so much that he does everything to scare them away, all of them. In short, it's the story of a happiness that can only escape, lest he run away.

Ghammamets

Khaled, a man in his forties, is preparing to make his film “The Lie That Tells the Truth” about terrorism in the 1990s in Algeria. Khaled is in full preparation for his shoot: scouting, casting, interviews, and interviews with journalists. Khaled also attends conferences on national reconciliation and victims of terrorism. Held meetings with producers and assistants to organize filming.

L'argentine

Professional football player at Olympique de Marseille, Océane is the club's best player. Her efforts since childhood to be at the highest level finally seem to be paying off, since she is about to be selected for the French team for the World Cup. But, after a complicated season, the club's leaders recruit Fanny, a promising and ambitious young striker. His arrival within the team shakes Océane’s certainties. Is she still good enough to stay on top?

The taste of homes

Despite their mother's denial, the three children suspect that their father was replaced overnight by a stranger. 'The Taste of Homes' is a family drama which depicts the violent transformations of a fragile youth at the age of adolescence, towards the economic and social changes around them.

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