EMBODIED CHORUS

لن تتركنا الطيور

By Danielle DAVIE, Mohamad SABBAH

MADAME LE TAPIS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2023

Danielle’s raw filmed diary and Moe’s vibrant queer memory of living with a Sexually Transmitted Infection, ignite a collaborative exploration of bodies, intimacy, and shame.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2023
Luminous
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Female director, LGBT
    • Countries
    • LEBANON, GERMANY, LUXEMBOURG
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 72 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Danielle DAVIE, Mohamad SABBAH
    • Producer(s)
    • Yara ABI NADER (MADAME LE TAPIS), Julia WAGNER (HEARTWAKE FILMS GMBH)
    • Partners & financing
    • Awards & Participation:
      2018 Nomination Robert Bosch Film Prize | Special Award: invitation to Dubai Film Market
      2018 Beirut Cinema Platform, Lebanon | Award: invitation to Rotterdam Lab, IFFR 2019
      2018 Tripoli Film Festival Pitching Forum, Lebanon | 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 Invitation to IDFA Summer School
      2020 IFP Week New York / Spotlight on Documentaries Section
      2020 EAVE on demand, Lebanon
      2022 Beirut Cinema Platform, Lebanon | Award: CNC Main Jury Award
      2022 MedFilm Work In Progress Rome, Italy | Award: Stadion Video Prize

      Partners:
      IDFA Bertha Classic development fund 2018, IMS Media Support Denmark 2019, 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, Cinema al Fouad Film Grants & CNC Lebanon Emergency Fund