Private Project

Sadoum

Sadoum is a young man, tormented by nightmares, anxious in daily life, who wanders around Paris, a city where loneliness and firearms are prevalent.
He meets Maria, a strange woman. Will she be able to change his life?

  • Christophe Karabache
    Writer
  • Cinema Group association
    Producer
  • Vincent Cheikh, Maire-Cécile Gueguen, Grégory Baud, Rabiàa Tlili
    Key Cast
  • Christophe Karabache
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 36 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 4, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • EyeCatcher International Film Festival
    Oklahoma
    November 12, 2015
  • International Independent Film Awards

    Bronze Winner Award 2015
  • Global Independent Film Awards

    Best GLBT Film - Bronze Medal
  • Indie Fest Film Awards

    Award of Recognition
  • Lisbon International Film Festival
    Portugal
  • Top Indie Film Awards
    USA
    Nomination 'No Budget Spirit'
  • North Wales International Film Festival
    UK
  • Around International Film festival
    Berlin
    Best Experimental Film
  • Canada International Film Festival
    Vancouver
    April 7, 2016
    Royal Reel Award
  • EURO FEST - European International Film Festival
    St Petersburg
    Russian Federation
  • Alaska International Film Awards

    Denali Award
  • Swedish International Film Festival
    Stockholm
  • Great Lakes International Film Festival
    Erie
    United States
    September 22, 2016
  • UnderGround FilmFest
    Ancona
    Italy
    November 14, 2016
  • International Filmmaker Festival Of World Cinema MILAN
    Milan
    Italy
    November 26, 2016
  • Blow up - Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
  • Oregon International Film Awards

    Best Foreign Feature
  • California Film Awards
    San Diego
    United States
    Orson Welles Award
  • The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
    London
    United Kingdom
    Jury Prize, Best Feature, Best Editing, Best Actress
  • European Cinematography Awards
    Warsaw
    Poland
    Best LGBT Film/Best Film of the month - nominated for the Golden Eagle Award
  • Erie International Film Festival

    Nomination Best Experimental Film
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival
    Calcutta
    India
    Outsdanding Achievement Award (LGBT Film)
Distribution Information
  • Visiosfeir Distribution
    Country: France
Director Biography - Christophe Karabache

Christophe Karabache is a French-Lebanese filmmaker.
Born in Beirut in 1979, he completed his Masters in Cinema Studies at Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) and through a joint program at The University of Iowa (USA).
Karabache began his exploration of film at l’Etna, an alternative workshop in Paris. He initially made experimental films.
His current filmmaking practice shifts between documentary and fiction.
His films have been showcased at several international film festivals (in the USA, Lebanon, New Caledonia, Bosnia, Canada, UK, Greece, France, Benine, Australia, Hungary, Germany, Venezuela, Belgium, Switzerland, Romania, Poland, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Italy, India, Ireland, Bulgaria, Chile, Uruguay, etc.) and theatrically released in movie theaters in France by Visiosfeir Distribution. In 2018, he signed a global distribution deal with Shami Media Group (New York).

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Director Statement

The film is a search for identity. The characters seek love, happiness, the recognition of the other, and affection. They are also searching for themselves. Instead, they are faced with stiffness, violence, the inability to love, aggressiveness, incommunicability or death.
The idea is to show the ambiguity of relations between grotesque and pathetic beings, immersed in neurosis, who represent various aspects of the anguish of daily life in a city like Paris.