Three Centimetres

Generation 14plus 2018

A moment of floating, standstill. Four girlfriends are sitting in the gondola of a Ferris wheel. The camera takes in the view of the Mediterranean sea on the Lebanese coast, watches the girls boarding the gondola, turns a round with them, rides up to the very top. Then, the wheel suddenly comes to a halt and so does the camera. Their conversation has just comes to an abrupt end when Manal confesses that she has a girlfriend.

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by Lara Zeidan
with Mira Choukeir, Joyce Abou Jaoude, Bissan Ahmad, Melissa Dano United Kingdom 2017 Arabic 9’ Colour

With

Mira Choukeir (Manal)
Joyce Abou Jaoude (Suzie)
Bissan Ahmad (Joanna)
Melissa Dano (Tamara)

Crew

Written and Directed by	Lara Zeidan
Cinematography	Pierfrancesco Cioffi
Editing	Emanuele Bonomi
Sound Design	James Hynes
Sound	Kateryna Zabulonska
Make-Up	Michel El Ghoul
Assistant Director	John Giordano
Producer	John Giordano
Co-Producer	Hiam Hilal

World sales

The London Film School

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Produced by

The London Film School

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Lara Zeidan

Born in Montreal, Canada in 1991, she has a Lebanese background and is a screenwriter, director and production designer who has already worked on over 30 short films. She first studied graphic design at the American University of Beirut before going on to take a master’s degree in filmmaking at the London Film School in 2015.

Filmography

2016 Yellow Moon; short film 2017 Three Centimetres; short film

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018