The 13th edition of LabMed welcomes 8 authors of 1st or 2nd feature films from the Mediterranean basin.
They will exchange with the artistic director Alice Kharoubi, and the advisors Hakim Mão, Adriano Valerio and Anissa Daoud during 3 residency sessions of one week each, starting in July 2024, in Marseille.
The first session will take place from June 29 to July 5, 2024.
When a court rejects the asylum request of Nour, a 25-year-old woman in Germany, and an imminent deportation looms over her, Nour joins a group of women residing in a private refugee center. Together, they embark on a multidimensional battle to challenge the deportation order, yearning for a more liberated future for themselves and their children in Germany.
Chadia, 18 years old, lost in the city wanders randomly looking for her missing brother. His emotional instability and his overwhelming encounters increase his absolute quest for self and shed light on the city from another angle.
Karim was counting on his hair transplant to finally gain self-confidence. So when the operation fails, Karim loses his footing. From Istanbul to Bodrum, he tries to save his remaining hair at all costs, leading two patients from the clinic with whom he forms an unexpected friendship.
An insecure artist and daughter of a famous painter must navigate the cutthroat art world and survive financially, leading her to forge her father's paintings and ultimately face a public trial.
In Beirut, Selma, 27, decides to rob her bank, with the complicity of an action collective. She wants to recover the $30,000 in her account confiscated by the banking system since the start of the economic collapse. It is his last resort to save his sister, who is suffering from brain cancer. But the heist takes an unexpected turn and sets fire to the powder...
Darine, a dynamic woman in her thirties, works in a small radio station in Beirut where she hosts the morning show “Horoscopes avec Darine”, which she directs with expertise. One day, his life takes an unexpected turn when the radio station asks him to replace the news anchor who was fired due to the country's economic crisis. Darine, who has always taken refuge in a deliberately fictional universe, suddenly finds herself confronted with announcing on air the dark reality of a country on the verge of collapse.
“Oh grandma, what a big mouth you have!”And when she said that, that rascal of a Wolf threw himself on poorLittle Red Riding Hood and swallowed her in a mouthful.Will the little girl be able to get out of the wolf’s belly?
After studying in France and the United States, Alice has been part of the core team at the Cannes Film Festival for many years. While in charge of the Cannes Court Métrage, she was appointed film programmer for the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and was also part of the programming team for the Festival Tous Écrans in Geneva.
She is currently Director of Programming for the Marché du Film and a member of the Cannes Short Film Competition Committee. Alice is often asked to mentor young filmmakers, identify projects and actively participate in various selection committees. She also works for the Red Sea International Film Festival, where she is a member of the programming team and organizes the Talent Days.
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His first feature film Banat – the journey, was presented at the International Critics' Week at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia (2015) and was nominated for the David di Donatello. It has been selected in more than 70 International Festivals, receiving various awards including the Corso Salani Award.
His short Mon Amour Mon Ami was presented at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia (Orizzonti, 2017) and at Toronto International Film Festival.
His documentary Les Aigles de Carthage was the opening short film at International Critics’ Week at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia (2020).
His short film The Nightwalk has been awarded with the Prix Canal+ at Clermont Ferrand Film festival (2021) and Audience Award at Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro and shortlist for the Césars.
His last short Calcutta 8:40AM was presented at Festa del Cinema di Roma - Alice nella Città and won the Nastro D’Argento (2023).
His documentary Casablanca premiered at Giornata degli Autori/Venice Nights at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia (2023).
He directed two episodes of the TV series Squadra Criminale (2018), produced by Freemantle and Rai Fiction.
He is lecturer at École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière, Istituto Marangoni, ALBA - Lebanese Academy of Fina Arts and EICAR - The International Film School of Paris.
Self-taught and versatile Anissa Daoud was born of a Tunisian father and a Franco-Italian mother. Initially known as an actress and author, then a producer and more recently a director, she's carrying projects with high impact and strong social and political involvement.
The films she defends are mainly international co-productions which have gained recognition by competing in leading festivals like Cannes, Venice, Cairo, Les Césars, Tampere, Clermont-Ferrant, Cairo Film Festival, etc.
While continuing her career as an actress and producer, she is currently developing the screenplay for her first feature film.
Hakim was born and raised in Agadir, on Morocco's Atlantic coast, before moving to France to study cinema, first at BTS Audiovisuel in editing, then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière in the cinema department, where he wrote and directed several short films.He then developed his first feature-length project, Forgive them for they don't know, which was selected at the 2012 Meditalents writing workshop along with eleven other directors from the southern Mediterranean. Based in Paris, Hakim works as a script consultant while developing several short and feature film projects, including Jeld, selected for the co-production forum at the Bordeaux International Independent Film Festival.
