A Maid for Each

Makhdoumin

DIRECTOR: Maher Abi Samra   COUNTRIES: Lebanon, France, Norway, United Arab Emirates    YEAR: 2016   LANGUAGE(S): Arabic   SUBTITLES: English   RUNNING TIME: 67 min  

SECTION: International Forum 2017

SCREENINGS

Sunday, 01.10., 1.30 p.m., kinoeins
Tuesday, 03.10., 6.30 p.m., kinoeins

SYNOPSIS
Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master and the worker the property. Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges for Asian and African women to work in Lebanese households and assists his clients in choosing “mail-order” housemaids that will best suit their needs. Advertisement, justice, police are on his side. He decides to open his agency for us.

MAHER ABI SAMRA
Maher Abi Samra was born in Beirut, Libanon in 1965. He studied Drama Arts in Beirut and Audio-Visual Studies in Paris, and has worked as a photo-journalist for Lebanese newspapers, and international agencies.

FILMOGRAPHY
Women of Hezbollah (2000), Shatila Round-About (2004), Merely A Smell (2007), We Were Communists (2010), A Maid for Each (2016)

SCRIPT: Maher Abi Samra   PRODUCERS: Jinane Dagher, Sabine Sidawi, Serge Lalou, Camille Laemle, Ida Ven Bruusgaard, Eirin O. Høgetveit   CAMERA: Claire Mathon   EDITOR: Rana Sabbagha  
PRODUCTION: Orjouane Productions, Les Films D’ici, Medieoperatørene as   WORLD SALES: Hannah Horner, Doc & Film International