Private Project

Kalashnikov Society

Beirut, right after the August 4th explosion….
Trails of life, torn out of a burdensome and peculiar daily existence, interweaving melancholia, wanderings, endurance and anger, of several people, living in a country on the edge of the abyss.

  • Christophe Karabache
    Director
  • Cécilia Werkmaïster
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    54 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 4, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Lebanon
  • Country of Filming:
    Lebanon
  • Language:
    Arabic
  • Shooting Format:
    UHD 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • On The Road Film Festival/Detour arthouse cinema
    Roma
    Italy
    April 3, 2022
  • Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival
    Chennai
    India
    February 24, 2022
  • Seoul International Short Film Festival

    Finalist
  • Valencia Indie Film Festival
    Valencia
    Spain
  • Cine Pobre Film Festival
    La Paz
    Mexico
    Honorable mention
  • IZDOC - Izmir International Documentary Festival
    izmir
    Turkey
    January 22, 2023
    Best Experimental Documentary
  • Art Stream IFF
    Amsterdam
    Best Feature Documentary
  • T.I.F.A - Tietê International Film Awards
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    November 10, 2022
  • Festival Internazionale Segni della Notte
    Urbino
    Italy
    November 28, 2022
  • Iran International Documentary Film Festival "Cinéma Vérité"
    Tehran
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    December 19, 2023
    Best Mid-Length Film
Director Biography - Christophe Karabache

French-Lebanese filmmaker. Born in Beirut in 1979, he completed his Cinema Studies at Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) and through a joint program at The University of Iowa (USA).
He 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 and theatrically released in France by Visiosfeir Distribution. A documentary about his work is edited on DVD by RE:VOIR (Paris) .
In 2017, he signed a global distribution deal with SMG (New York). He worked with Dragway Productions in 2018.

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Director Statement

The images were captured between August 2020 and August 2021.
Intertwining formal experimentation and snapshots from reality, which are intermittently spontaneous and staged, flirting with fiction, this film casts a bitter gaze on a torn society.