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Racha Baroud
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6 titles
Born in Paris in 1985, Racha Baroud is a Lebanese actress and director. Beside her Master in Theatre Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, she trained in Paris in L’Atelier du jeu led by Jacques Fontaine. She later focused on physical work with Studio Matejka, based in the Grotowski Institute in Poland and deepened her craft in the frame of several workshops in Europe particularly among Alessio Castellacci, Irena Tomazin and Theodoros Terzopoulos. In 2015, she staged her first performance Today was my birthday, a musical tribute to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor. Her interest in cinema led her to attend the intensive program Practice of directing documentary films in Atelier Varan in Paris. In…
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NRTen-year-old Solwei and Louis, her eighteen-year-old brother, have a car accident and find themselves in the middle of the night in a small, unfamiliar town. Here they meet with Alma, a mystical woman, whose contact details had been given to them. A truly strange night then begins.
Midnight Sun
2019
NRLebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...
Ba'adana
2011
NRJal el Bahr is a personal essai that retraces the history of a 1960’s domain in the South of Lebanon and the family it belongs to. Between reminiscing and feeling of loss, the documentary shifts into a metaphorical universe by illustrating the story through living pictures, discretely unveiling the unspoken that might have led to its perdition.
Jal el Bahr
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NRAssaad, Lebanese settled in Paris, works every day in a foreign exchange office. He was a milician. He became vampire. A Socio-political drift allegory
Ruines
2010
NROn August 4, 2020, an explosion devastated the port of Beirut and part of the city. Two hundred people lost their lives. Five thousand were seriously injured. Three hundred thousand were displaced. Following the disaster, we set out to find three port workers who had appeared in one of our films ten years earlier.
Ali, Hachem and Khaled
2021
NRUntitled#1 is the first video of a serie. It's a compilation of sounds and images that reveals my intimate observation and experience of time and the elements that surrounds me.
Untitled#1
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Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
NRTen-year-old Solwei and Louis, her eighteen-year-old brother, have a car accident and find themselves in the middle of the night in a small, unfamiliar town. Here they meet with Alma, a mystical woman, whose contact details had been given to them. A truly strange night then begins.
Midnight Sun
2019
NRLebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...
Ba'adana
2011
NRAssaad, Lebanese settled in Paris, works every day in a foreign exchange office. He was a milician. He became vampire. A Socio-political drift allegory
Ruines
2010
Behind the camera
NRJal el Bahr is a personal essai that retraces the history of a 1960’s domain in the South of Lebanon and the family it belongs to. Between reminiscing and feeling of loss, the documentary shifts into a metaphorical universe by illustrating the story through living pictures, discretely unveiling the unspoken that might have led to its perdition.
Jal el Bahr
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NROn August 4, 2020, an explosion devastated the port of Beirut and part of the city. Two hundred people lost their lives. Five thousand were seriously injured. Three hundred thousand were displaced. Following the disaster, we set out to find three port workers who had appeared in one of our films ten years earlier.
Ali, Hachem and Khaled
2021
NRUntitled#1 is the first video of a serie. It's a compilation of sounds and images that reveals my intimate observation and experience of time and the elements that surrounds me.
Untitled#1
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