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.
On Filicudi, a volcanic island in the Aeolian archipelago, a biologist has created, with a few assistants, a first aid center for marine animals, specializing in the sea turtles (Caretta caretta) that once nested in the archipelago. Their presence is frowned upon by the indigenous fishermen who cannot bear to have lost the privilege of the sea and the pleasure of eating turtle meat. In their journeys to save the sea, above and below the surface of the water, these women acquire the experience of ocean and air currents, come into contact with the ancestral beliefs of the island collected by an anthropologist, and become the protagonists of a real and imaginary meta-morphosis at the same time. Rescuing turtles produces extraordinary results that only satellite technologies can capture in their magnificent entirety.
At 22, while in India studying yoga, my little sister Elena was hospitalized in an emergency. She suffered a violent psychotic attack following her confinement by a man for several days. Even from miles away, I feel her mind shattering. I have to go get her. Let me take her home. The film delves into the heart of an intimate exploration of sisterhood, and documents the slow reconstruction of a young woman who is the victim of one of these stories that are still too numerous, before she is forgotten.
After fleeing Gaza with his wife and four children, a Palestinian photojournalist finds asylum in a rented apartment in Cairo. The war continues to rage, seen through the prism of telephone and television, while banality and drama intertwine. A close look at exile in real time: The past remains vibrant and the future uncertain.
The three Algerian musicians of the group INDEX are currently experiencing a geographical separation. They ward off the distance by still making music together and even plan to go back on stage. With them, I look back at the birth of the group during the 90s in the midst of terrorism. An attempt to tell the story of one of the darkest periods of Algeria, one of the most complex, but where the impulse for life was at its peak, a period when I was still only a child. With Index, I wonder about this episode in Algerian history, where memory is absent from the national story.
I tell Flip's story to forget mine I Film, I draw this story and each time I move forward I discover that Flip is me, I'm him.
An adventure begins when Fatima discovers a treasure trove of VHS archives with her uncle Ahmed, exiled in Germany. Twenty years of his family's life in war-torn Lebanon are replayed on the screen. In these images, a common thread: the tireless efforts of a grandmother to convince her son Ahmed to come home. With this correspondence, Fatima discovers traces of a greater story. Like a shoot that would have lasted twenty years, the images captured the vanished memory of the villages of southern Lebanon, of the civil war and of the resilience of a Shiite family aspiring, in the midst of chaos, to find themselves.
I am here presenting a creative documentary feature length 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.
In Casablanca, three sisters play cards in a living room. Three sisters who took an oath never to reveal the truth. In a family where lies were layered into earthy layers that ended up crumbling. Because these are women's problems and we had to act quickly and discreetly. These three sisters are my aunts. And I, Mossiba, the catastrophe, have come to shatter everything.
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.
Rebecca Houzel co-founded the production company Petit à Petit at the end of 2006. It produces mainly documentaries, selected and awarded at numerous festivals in France and abroad, a significant proportion of which are destined for theatrical release. She supports both young and established filmmakers. At the heart of her production choices is the need she perceives among filmmakers for films that change the way they look at the issues and territories they explore. It has developed an international network, particularly to produce Eastern European auteurs, and is beginning to develop feature-length fiction films.
