TRAMONTANE
Filmfest 2016
OT: RABIH
France, Lebanon 2016
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Arabic)
German Premiere
Director: Vatche Boulghourjian
Section: International Independents
Rabih is a young blind man. When he finds out his ID is fake, he sets out on a journey through Lebanon looking for his birth certificate, his identity. But the country he travels through is also searching for its identity. Between myth a history, between lies and his individual memory, Rabih constructs an image of himself and his homeland with his compatriots.
Cast: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar, Michel Adabashi, Toufic Barakat
Credits
Screenplay: Vatche Boulghourjian
Director of Photography: Jimmy Lee Phelan
Film Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
Composer: Cynthia Zaven
Sound: Rana Eid
Producer: Georges Schoucair, Caroline Oliveira, Gabrielle Dumon
Production Company: Abbout Productions, Rebus Films Production
Co-Production Company: Le Bureau Films
World Sales: The Bureau Sales
Director: Vatche Boulghourjian
biography
Lebanese filmmaker Vatche Boulghourjian worked as TV news reporter in the Mideast and shot short films before earning his Master of Fine Arts at New York University. His graduating film THE FIFTH COLUMN screened at Cannes 2010.
