RABIES

By Sandra TABET

HAUT LES MAINS PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Female director - Development 2025

Haunted by Beirut’s unresolved tragedies, Julia’s worst fears come to life as she watches her son succumb to the return of the rabid dogs.

    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Female director, First film, Horror
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, LEBANON
    • Languages
    • ARABIC-LEBANESE
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sandra TABET
    • Producer(s)
    • Rana EID (DB STUDIOS)
    • Synopsis
    • Sixty-year-old Julia, a history professor, teaches the controversial Lebanese Civil War. Her solitary lifestyle is disrupted when 30-year-old Ghassan, her only son, comes back to live with her. While mother and son attempt to reconstruct their broken relationship, the war- time rabid dogs reappear, spreading terror in the streets of Beirut. When Ghassan is bitten, Julia witnesses his transformation into a violent, brutal man. Together, they embark on a nightmarish journey through the capital, looking for a cure as the city collapses around them.
    • Partners & financing
    • Doha Film Institute
      Red Sea Fund
      AFAC
      Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
      Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine