Title: MIGUEL’S WAR
Running time: 127 min.
Colour: Colour
Shooting format: HD
Languages: Arabic, Spanish
Production countries: Lebanon · Spain
Production: ITAR productions (Lebanon)
Coproduction: Kabinett film (Germany) · Zeitun Films (Spain)
Year: 2021
With Miguel Jelelaty
Director: Eliane Raheb
Scriptwriter: Eliane Raheb
Director of photography: Bassem Fayad
Animation director: Fadi El Samra
Editor: Eliane Raheb
Animation supervisor: Fdz
Original music: Mazen Kerbaj
Sound design: Victor Bresse
Sound: Shadi Roukoz, Amanda Villavieja
Art director: Nader Moussali
Costumes: Anthony Chidiac
Assistant director: Nadim Hobeika
Line producers: Nermine Haddad, Marta del Vigo
Producer: Eliane Raheb
Coproducers: Margot Haiböck · Lissi Muschol · Felipe Lage Coro
Berlinale – Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Panorama Section (Germany)
NewFest – New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival (USA). Grand Jury Award
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece)
Istanbul Documentary Days (Turkey)
Lemesos International Documentary Festival (Cyprus)
Queer Lisboa (Portugal)
Luststreifen Film Festival (Switzerland)
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (Canada)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Festival Everybody’s Perfect (Switzerland)
Cinemed (France)
Soura Film Festival (Germany)
MIX Copenhagen (Denmark)
Raindance Film Festival (Reino Unido)
Carthage Film Festival (Túnez)
Southern Lights Frankfurt (Germany)
Leeds International Film Festival (UK)
Escales Documentaires – Festival international de la création documentaire La Rochelle (France)
Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Best Documentary Nomination
Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla (Spain)
Mostra de Cinema Àrab i Mediterrani de Catalunya (Spain)
Rome Independent Film Festival (Italy)
Queer Voices International Film Festival (Moldova)
this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival (Austria)
Antenna International Documentary Film Festival (Australia)
True/False Film Fest (USA)
Ibizacinefest (Spain)
Docs au Féminin (France)
Aflam, Rencontres internationales de cinéma (France)
RPFF – Riga Pasaules Film Festival (Latvia)
ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin (Germany)
International Queer & Migrant Film Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Gabes Cinema Fen (Tunisia)
Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke (Canada)
Festival de Cine LGBTIQ de Asturias (Spain)
XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin (Germany)
SAFAR Film Festival (UK)
Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest (Spain)
Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (USA)
Queergestreift Film Festival (Germany)
Chéries-Chéris. Festival du Film Lesbien, Gay, Bi, Trans & ++++ de Paris (France). Grand Documentary Award
Arab Film Festival San Francisco (USA)
Kasseler DocFest (Germany)
Lebanese director Eliane Raheb is the creator and director of several award-winning short films and documentaries. Her recent work includes the feature documentaries: Sleepless Nights (5th in Sight and Sound magazine’s listings of the best documentaries of 2013) and Those Who Remain, (screened in over 60 film festivals and winner of the prestigious Etoile de la Scam award).
Eliane Raheb is the founder of ITAR Productions, a company that has produced awardwinning documentaries broadcast on ARTE/ZDF, France 3, France 24, NHK, Al Jadeed and the Al Jazeera Documentary channel, and screened in international film festivals worldwide.
Ms. Raheb is a founding member of the “Beirut DC” Association for Cinema and is the sixtime artistic director of its film festival “Beirut Cinema Days”.
Ms. Raheb has lectured on Arab cinema and screened her films at universities worldwide including: Harvard, Brown, Georgetown and George Mason.
She was artist-in-residence at the prestigious DAAD Arts Program and La Cité des Arts- Paris.
Eliane Raheb’s latest film, Miguel’s War was awarded the Robert Bosch Production Prize and participated in La Fabrique des Cinémas du monde, a co-production platform within Cannes film festival.
