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EMBODIED CHORUS

نَفَسْ

By Mohamed SABBAH, Danielle DAVIE

Social issues - Post-Production 2022

To surpass the shame of living with Sexually Transmitted Infections in Lebanon, an HIV-positive woman and a gay man with HPV experience open a cinematic conversation.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Social issues, LGBT, Documentary
- Countries
- LEBANON, GERMANY, LUXEMBOURG
- Languages
- ARABIC, FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Mohamed SABBAH, Danielle DAVIE
- Writer(s)
- Mohamed SABBAH, Danielle DAVIE
- Producer(s)
- Julia WAGNER (HEARTWAKE FILMS GMBH), Yara ABI NADER FEGHALI (Madame Le Tapis)
- Synopsis
- EMBODIED CHORUS is a creative documentary following Danielle, an HIV positive woman, and Mohamed, a gay man who lived with HPV, on their journey towards resilience. They open a conversation, narrate their own stories and those of other individuals, going beyond the shame related to a Sexually Transmitted Infection experience in Lebanon.
  Danielle and Mohamed open a dialogue, express their desire to communicate and expose their situations. Slowly, their respective images start to replace their words and the dialogue becomes cinematic through Danielle’s ‘filmed diary’ and Mohamed’s ‘poetical fiction’.
- Partners & financing
- Awards:
  2018 Nomination Robert Bosch Film Prize | Special Award: invitation to Dubai Film Market
  2018 Beirut Cinema Platform | Award: Invitation to Rotterdam Lab, IFFR 2019
  2018 Tripoli Film Festival Pitching Forum | Award: invitation to Cine Gouna Platform + Finishing award by The Postoffice Beirut
  2018 El Gouna Film Festival SpringBoard, Egypt | Award: Best project in development (jury: Marten Rabarts, Hania Mroueh, Sherif ElBendary)
  2018 Invitation to IDFA Academy
  2019 Lebanese Ministry of Culture, production funding
  2019 Invitation to IDFA Summer School
  2020 IFP Week New York / Spotlight on Documentaries Section
  2020 EAVE on demand Lebanon
  Partners:
  IDFA Bertha Classic development fund 2018, Lebanese Ministry of Culture fund 2019, IMS Media Support Denmark 2019, PostOffice Beirut, AFAC Arab Fund for Arts and Culture 2019, BUSAN ACF/AND Asian Cinema Fund 2019, Luxemburg Film Fund, OIF Fonds Images de la Francophonie & IDFA Bertha Fund Europe 2020
- Production schedule
- main shoot Beirut / LEB & Berlin / GER: 2021
  delivery expected: mid/autumn 2022
- Beginning of shooting
- Apr 25, 2021