Michelle Keserwany

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Michelle Keserwany: The Lebanese musician, writer and filmmaker co-wrote the screenplay for Capernaum (2018) with the director Nadine Labaki and since then has been developing her own film projects. In 2019, she received a residency scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and she has been living between Beirut and Paris ever since. She wrote the screenplay for Les chenilles, her debut short film which she co-directed with her sister Noel Keserwany.

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Beirut, Lebanon

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Les chenilles

Two women meet as waitresses and tentatively become friends. They are both from the Levant and living in exile in France. A film about the Silk Road, about exploitation – then and now – and about female solidarity, friendship and solace.

6.0

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2023

Les chenilles

6.0

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2023

Capernaum

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

8.2

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2018