A Maid for Each
Makhdoumin
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)