Go Home

Name: Go Home
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016
Duration: 98 min

Director: Jihane Chouaib

Rights:

Highlights

The film received Dubai Post Production Fund (Enjaaz).
The film stars the award-winning Iranian star Golshifteh Farahani, who starred alongside Leonardo Dicaprio in Body of Lies, becoming the first Iranian actress to take part in a Hollywood production since 1979.

2016/ France - Switzerland - Belgium - Lebanon98 min/ Drama

Original Title

Rawhy

SYNOPSIS

When Nada comes back to her homeland, Lebanon she finds her home turned into an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. During her journey searching for her identity, more secrets and myths were revealed.

CAST

Golshifeh Farahni
Maximilien Seweryn
Julia Kassar
Mireille Maalouf

CREW

Screenwriter: Jihane Chouaib
DOP: Tommaso Fiorilli
Editor: Ludo Troch

Production Company(ies)

Paraiso Production Diffusion

Producer(s)

Nathalie Trafford

Busan International Film Festival, South Korea

Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), UAE

Munich International Film Festival, Germany

Lebanese Film Festival, Lebanon

Panorama of the European Film, Egypt

Silk Road International Film Festival, Ireland

Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, USA

Beirut International Women Film Festival, Lebanon

Lebanese Movie Awards, Lebanon

Best Sound Design In A Lebanese Motion Picture to Béatrice Wick at the Lebanese Movie Awards, Lebanon

Reviews

Peter Debruge - Variety

Boyd van Hoeij - The Hollywood Reporter

Wendy Ide - Screen Daily

Alan Mehanna - An-Nahar

Quotes

“Chouaib and Farahani impressively manage to draw the viewer in, with the specter of death and a thick air of secrecy hanging heavy over the proceedings from the first frame.” Boyd van Hoeij - The Hollywood Reporter

“This trilingual yet not especially talky debut [of Jihane Chouaib] ... seeks profundity in introspective silences.” Peter Debruge - Variety

“A film that is a perfect merger of visual and narrative storytelling, Chouaib’s mature use of the camera and the mise-en-scene form the perfect, yet at times melancholic ode to home and identity.” Alan Mehanna - An-Nahar