LabDoc 2024
The fifth edition of Lab Doc, Meditalents' documentary writing residency, will take place in 3 sessions of 5 days, spread over a period of about 6 months, starting in April 2024 at the Convent of Compassion in the 12th arrondissement of Marseille.
Dominique Cabrera is the godmother of this fifth edition of Lab Doc.
Mathilde Amar Amghari
Mossiba : Conseil de femmes
In Casablanca, three sisters are playing cards in a living room. Three sisters who have sworn never to reveal the truth. In a family where lies have been piled on top of each other in earthy layers that have finally crumbled away. Because these are women's issues and we had to act quickly and discreetly. These three sisters are my aunts. And I, Mossiba, the catastrophe, have come to destroy everything.
Amal El Atrache
Maman je suis Flip!
I tell Flip's story to forget my own. I'm filming and drawing this story, and each time I move forward, I discover that Flip is me, and I am him.
Fatima Joumaa
30 heures d'archives
An adventure begins when Fatima discovers a treasure trove of VHS archives in the home of her uncle Ahmed, who lives in exile in Germany. Twenty years of her family's life in war-torn Lebanon play out on the screen. A common thread runs through these images: a grandmother's tireless efforts to convince her son Ahmed to return home. Through this correspondence, Fatima discovers traces of a larger story. Like a film shoot that would have lasted twenty years, the images have captured the vanished memory of villages in southern Lebanon, the civil war, and the resilience of a Shiite family struggling to find itself amidst the chaos.
Sarah Kechemir
Echoes
The three Algerian musicians of INDEX are now geographically separated. But they have managed to bridge the distance by continuing to make music together and are even planning to return to the stage. With them, I revisit the birth of the group in the 90s, in the midst of terrorism. An attempt to retrace the history of one of Algeria's darkest and most complex periods, when the impulse to live was at its height, a period when I was still a child. With Index, I ask myself about this episode in Algerian history, when memory is absent from the national narrative.
Rebeca Elena Carini
She Got Game
I am here presenting a creative documentary feature lenght film "She Got Game" (provisional) and it will be produced by Small Boss Production. The film is a coming of age / sport film journey straddling the realms of the real and the digital, narrated through the perspective of Giorgia, a 22 year old girl eems an average ordinary girl but, in the virtual realm, she holds an extraordinary talent. From “zero to hero” she is the first European Champion of eFootball 2023, the most prestigious eSports title, and at the beginning of a pro-player career. Following her through the new upcoming competitive season, in both virtual and real world, she will have to find out whether she could fit as a pro-player career or maintain her normal routine; trying to undercover who she is and who she wants to become in a predominantly male world, whose roles are yet to be defined. The story offers the chance to explore the real and digital landscapes from our contemporary youth perspectives, with its uncertainties, doubts and vulnerabilities, through the freedom and vivacious space of the digital "metaverse" which can be promoter for change.
Omer Shamir
L'abstrait et le réel
When street artist Know Hope faced a chronic illness, he reinvented his artistic approach by making a film about the lives of strangers. Their lives become his artistic medicine. But as he loses control of his own body and art, he also loses control of his own movie.
Julia Zahar
Pour rien nos mondes
At the age of 22, while in India to study yoga, my little sister Elena was rushed to the hospital. She suffered a violent psychotic attack after being held captive by a man for several days.
I can feel her mind exploding from miles away. I have to go get her. Bring her home.
The film delves into the heart of an intimate exploration of sisterhood, documenting the slow reconstruction of a young woman victimized by one of those all-too-common stories before it is forgotten.
Miriam Gili
Miriam Gili, born in 1987. After graduating from NABA in painting and visual arts, she attended the master’s program in alternative cinema at EICTV in Sant’Antonio de Los Banos, Cuba. She also completed the MOVIES master’s program at IUAV in Venice. She has presented her works in collective and individual exhibitions at national and international institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Triennale Milano, V-a-c Foundation in Venice, among others.
Caretta, Caretta
In Filicudi, a volcanic island in the Aeolian archipelago, a biologist, along with a few assistants, has established a first aid center for marine animal, specializing in log-gerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) that once nested in the archipelago.
Their presence is frowned upon by native fishermen who cannot stand to have lost the privilege of the sea and the pleasure of eating turtle meat.
In their journeys to safeguard the sea, above and beneath the water’s surface, the women gain experience of both ocean and aerial currents, come into contact with the island’s ancestral beliefs gathered by an anthropologist, and become protagonists of a real and imaginary meta-morphosis at the same time.
The rescue of the turtles has an extraordinary outcome that only satellite technologies can capture in its magnificent entirety.
Shu Aiello
Shu Aiello lives in Marseille. She alternates between director and production manager. She has worked alongside directors as diverse as Jean Louis Comolli, Yossif Pasternak, Yvan Lemoine, Yves Anchar, Jean Yves Collet... As a director, she has written and directed some twenty documentaries for television, many of them devoted to questions of identity and society raised by the colonial history of France and its overseas territories. She has also directed a number of children's fiction series and reports for channel 5.
Leila Kilani
Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer of documentary and fiction films. She will accompany the winners throughout the second edition of Lab Doc. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1970, Leïla KILANI studied economics in Paris, obtaining a DEA in History and Civilization of the Mediterranean before preparing a thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Leïla Kilani has always dreamed of being a clown. Today, she lives between Paris and Tangier.
A freelance journalist since 1997, she turned to documentaries in 1999, with a number of highly acclaimed films: "Tanger, le rêve des brûleurs", 2002, about would-be immigrants to Europe, "Zad Moultaka, passages", 2002, "D'ici et d'ailleurs", a documentary on industrial memory in France, and "Nos lieux interdits" (2008). She then directed "Sur la planche" (2011), her 1st feature-length fiction film, which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and at over 80 festivals. She is currently working on finishing her second feature film: Indivisions.