A live talkback + Q&A with Lebanese filmmaker Selim Mourad, director of This Little Father Obsession on June 27 at 3 pm EDT, moderated by Arab American National Museum film curator Dave Serio.
The talkback will accompany the film This Little Father Obsession which will be screening from June 23-27, celebrating Pride Month. To reserve your ticket for the film, click HERE
Synopsis: Sélim Mourad traces the portrait of a family in which he is trying to find his place. The last descendant, losing his fertility, attracted to men, he is wondering about filiation and confronts his parents about his obsessions. How do you deal with the responsibility of extinguishing your own family line? Or, just like for this family house in Beirut waiting to be demolished, is there still time to decide otherwise? A kaleidoscopic family film blending documentary and auto-fiction, This Little Father Obsession sees the complexity of Lebanese society confronted with the personal aspirations of an individual, and the weight of patriarchal tradition with the desire for emancipation. The film carries out its investigation, punctuated with surrealist or baroque tableaux, easily shifting from humor to a more serious tone. And it’s during a search that Selim makes with his father to find a distant relative that the answers arrive, far from those that were expected.
Filmmaker Bio:
Sélim Mourad was born in Beirut in 1987. He did his bachelor's and both master's degrees in directing and film research in IESAV - Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. His filmography is diverse :
- Short personal documentaries like “A letter to my sister” (2008) in which he started his exploration of his family dynamics and "A Trip to the barbershop" (Yamagata Intl Film Fest 2009)
- Medium-length fictions like "The demolition” (2011) and X: the conception" (2012) in which he mixes reality and fiction
- A first feature documentary "This Little Father Obsession" (Visions du Réel 2016) that lives a beautiful festival life and deepens the filmmaker’s queer gaze on notions of procreation and transmission.
- A political trilogy of the body: Linceul (2018), Cortex (2019), and Agate Mousse (2020)
He is currently a film teacher in Beirut and is working on developing his next project.
A live talkback + Q&A with Lebanese filmmaker Selim Mourad, director of This Little Father Obsession on June 27 at 3 pm EDT, moderated by Arab American National Museum film curator Dave Serio.
The talkback will accompany the film This Little Father Obsession which will be screening from June 23-27, celebrating Pride Month. To reserve your ticket for the film, click HERE
Synopsis: Sélim Mourad traces the portrait of a family in which he is trying to find his place. The last descendant, losing his fertility, attracted to men, he is wondering about filiation and confronts his parents about his obsessions. How do you deal with the responsibility of extinguishing your own family line? Or, just like for this family house in Beirut waiting to be demolished, is there still time to decide otherwise? A kaleidoscopic family film blending documentary and auto-fiction, This Little Father Obsession sees the complexity of Lebanese society confronted with the personal aspirations of an individual, and the weight of patriarchal tradition with the desire for emancipation. The film carries out its investigation, punctuated with surrealist or baroque tableaux, easily shifting from humor to a more serious tone. And it’s during a search that Selim makes with his father to find a distant relative that the answers arrive, far from those that were expected.
Filmmaker Bio:
Sélim Mourad was born in Beirut in 1987. He did his bachelor's and both master's degrees in directing and film research in IESAV - Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. His filmography is diverse :
- Short personal documentaries like “A letter to my sister” (2008) in which he started his exploration of his family dynamics and "A Trip to the barbershop" (Yamagata Intl Film Fest 2009)
- Medium-length fictions like "The demolition” (2011) and X: the conception" (2012) in which he mixes reality and fiction
- A first feature documentary "This Little Father Obsession" (Visions du Réel 2016) that lives a beautiful festival life and deepens the filmmaker’s queer gaze on notions of procreation and transmission.
- A political trilogy of the body: Linceul (2018), Cortex (2019), and Agate Mousse (2020)
He is currently a film teacher in Beirut and is working on developing his next project.