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Born in the Maelstrom

Meryam Joober

  • 2017
  • Fiction
  • 28 min
  • 2K
  • 1.73
  • colour

Born in the Maelstrom is an impressionistic journey of a young biracial woman named Rebecca as she struggles to find her identity in a world shaped by her black mother’s painful past.

Credits

Rebecca 
Sasha Lane
Venus 
Karen Glave
Tobey 
Sam Ashe Arnold
Choir Leader 
Dawn Ford
Tom 
Hasani Freeman

Directed by 
Meryam Joobeur
Screenwriter 
Meryam Joobeur
Production 
Sylvain Corbeil, Hany Ouichou (Art & Essai)
Director of photography 
Vincent Gonneville
Set designer 
Valérie-Jeanne Mathieu
Costumes 
Alexandra Lord, Philippe Massé
Editing 
Sophie Farkas Bolla, Jacquelyn Mills
Sound 
Frédéric Cloutier

Festivals

22e Festival Regard, Canada, 2018
35e Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Canada, 2018
22e Victoria International Film Festival, Canada, 2017
14e Festival Images en Vue, Canada, 2017
46e Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada, 2017


Distribution Canada

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Trois-Rivière (Québec) G9A 5H3
Canada
T 514 467-8160

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