The 9th edition of Lab Med, the writing residency for a feature film project of Meditalents, took place in Tangier and Marseille in 3 sessions spread between March 2020 and February 2021.
- The 1st session took place from February 29 to March 7, 2020 in Tangier
- The 2nd session took place from June 22 to 30, 2020 online - Following the reconfinement in France
- The 3rd session took place from February 6 to 13, 2021 in Marseille
Tom, in his thirties, lives in France with his Japanese wife, Sakura, and their four-year-old son, Genki. The little family leads an ordinary and fulfilled existence. However, their balance explodes during a trip to Japan where Sakura dies in a tragic accident. From then on, the Japanese family with traditional customs considered that their duty was to raise Genki in Japan. An inconceivable decision for Tom, determined to fight to remain the mother of her child.
Aziz, 22 years old, madly in love with Aïcha, campaigns fiercely for justice, but will little by little come face to face with the reality of authoritarian power, which will destroy his life.
1995. Dorothée, 15 years old, disdains earthly foods and puts her body to the test in a high-level practice of gymnastics. She is skinny, determined and arrogant. Born into a fat family, Dorothée always felt different from her family and chose another life. In search of absolutes and perfection, she trains to exhaustion with her coach Gérald, braving pain and danger. Dorothée is afraid of nothing, ready to do anything to fly away. One weekend back in the village, she finds her childhood friend Joséphine. She meets an androgynous boy, Dylan, best friend of Joséphine's boyfriend, Mathieu. As they prepare to go to a party in the countryside not far from there, Dorothée decides to accompany them so as not to die stupid. That night, in this strange party where diverse and varied bodies dance with singularity to repetitive electronic music, Dylan looks at Dorothée and smiles at her. This smile and this other world awaken his being to a buried need for sensuality and fusion, to another movement. By abandoning herself to dance and love, Dorothée frees her body and finally experiences the ecstasy she so covets.
A worker dies after falling from the top of a building. Without relatives, his remains were abandoned to the cemetery administration which then relegated it to the medical faculty. When crossing to Paradise, he sees his file blocked as it lacks the burial certificate. He is sent back to earth as a living dead to complete his burial procedures.
At the age of 70 and thanks to three daily meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) Oum Tamer invariably manages to captivate her 45-year-old son, Tamer, and convince him to continue living with her. She has always tried to avoid the slightest effort or the slightest responsibility. Tamer is the only male figure in her life; so far she has managed to keep him away from any other woman. The news of an incurable illness makes her realize that treating her son like a prince has made him useless and incapable of surviving without her. In a vicious race against death, she must defy the possessive love she feels for her son, find the perfect woman who will accept Tamer as he is, reincarnate as his future wife to ensure his survival, and, above all, repress her sudden desire to free herself from the clutches of her mother who threatens the plans she is hatching for him.
AFTER DARK, begins as a love story between Anna and Tom set in Tirana. But nothing is that simple: the country is faced with abusive expropriations and Tom is confronted with Anna's true nature – a vampire.
Aicha is an Egyptian teenager who lives in a small fishing village in southern Italy. She wants to overcome her limits and her fears, especially those of water. How ? By participating in a traditional diving competition which marks the transition from adolescence to adulthood. But the world around him, still too retrograde and sexist, is not ready to confront his courage.
SprayThe life of Aida, a married woman and mother, takes a sudden turn when a stranger sprays the word “whore” on her building. This incident turns Aida's life into hell.
Christophe Lemoine is a French screenwriter, director, actor, comic strip scriptwriter and writer of children's literature.
Born in Morocco, he arrived in France at the age of 13. For a whole decade, his career took off in the world of theater, where he worked as an actor and director. He gradually began to write for the stage. In 2000, he became a writer for young people and a comic-strip scriptwriter. Les trois imposteurs" (2005-2006), in collaboration with Jean-Marie Woehrel, was his first published comic strip.
He also wrote the adaptations of "Robinson Crusoe", drawn by Jean-Christophe Vergne (2007), "L'Odyssée", drawn by Miguel Imbiriba (2010) and "L'île au trésor", drawn by Jean-Marie Vergne (2010) for Éditions Adonis' "Romans de Toujours" collection. He also wrote the screenplay for "L'Incroyable Music Hall!", drawn by Bruno Bazile, which appeared periodically in "Spirou". 2010 saw the production of a short film, which enjoyed a successful career, leading him to consider writing for the cinema. A screenwriter for film, animation and television, and a writer who passed through the Groupe Ouest Annual Selection in 2012, he also often acts as consultant, coach or script-doctor.He received the Prix des Écoles at the Terre de Bulles festival in Langeac in 2012 for "La Guerre des Boutons", the Prix de la Ligue de l'Enseignement at the BD Boum festival in Blois in 2012 for "Clara", and the Prix Latulu 2015 for "Poil de Carotte".
Jamal Belmahi was born in Morocco to a Moroccan father and an Austrian mother. A screenwriter for more than a decade, he has written several TV formats and also two film projects (Les Chevaux de Dieu, dir. Nabil Ayouch, Adieu l'Afrique Director: Pierre-Alain Meier). He is currently developing several projects, including Idir Serghine's first feature film.
He is a consultant on several series in Morocco and Algeria, a member of the CNC commission for the financial contribution for short films and one of the founding members of a French association of professional screenwriters: the SCA (Scénaristes de Cinéma Associés).