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= Go Home, directed by Jihane Chouaib = "Go Home" is the first feature film of fiction directed by Jihane Chouaib, entirely shot in Lebanon, with the magnificent actress Golshifteh Farahani in the leading role. It is a French-Swiss-Belgian coproduction (with an associate co-producer in Lebanon)

"Go Home" is a strong, contemporary and poetic statement about what it means to belong. It's also a coming of age story with a poignant point of view on childhood. Go home bears testament to the necessity to make films when collective and personal memory has become a black hole. Its filmmaker was born in war-torn Lebanon. She has been deeply influenced by her childhood spent in Mexico. And she has done most of her films in France (including the critically acclaimed Sous mon lit awarded as the best short movie by the French journalist union and presented at the Festival of Cannes - Semaine de la critique).

Synopsis
Nada is going home.

Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she’s a foreigner in her own country. But there’s still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war.

Something happened in this house. Something violent.

A young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself.

Credits
Script: Jihane Chouaib

Director: Jihane Chouaib

D.O.P: Tommaso Fiorilli

Editor: Ludo Troch

Sound design and music: Béatrice Wick

Sound engineer: Henri Maïkoff

Sound mixer: Emmanuel Croset, Aline Gavroy

Producer: Paraiso Production Diffusion (France)

Coproducers: Dschoint Ventschr (Switzerland), Eklektik production (Belgium)

Associate producer : Né à Beyrouth (Lebanon)

Cast
Golshifteh Farahani as Nada

Maximilien Seweryn as Sam

François Nour as Jalal

Julia Kassar as Colette

Mireille Maalouf as Aunt Nour

Festivals competitions
Busan International Film Festival (South-Korea) - New Currents Competition - October 2015

Dubai International Film Festival (UAE) - Muhr Feature Competition - December 2015

External link
"Go Home" on Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3517026/