Canadian Premiere
Finding community via his gay rugby league, Jamaican-born Desmond navigates life, love, and identity as an immigrant living in Munich, Germany.
Supported by
Community Partner
Desmond Grant
Canada/Germany
2023
In English, German and Jamaican Patois with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Béatrice Moukhaiber
Screenwriter
Eli Jean Tahchi
Cinematography
Rita Hajjar
Original Music
Youssef Nassar, Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
Director
Eli Jean Tahchi
Eli Jean Tahchi’s committed cinema is sharp, human and metaphorically charged, and in which the LGBTQ+ topics and the notion of identity are regularly tackled. Since 2011, he has accumulated projects of various genres, culturally diverse and awarded at festivals around the world.
Filmography: Neighbors in my backyard (2021); Sometimes I wish I was on a desert island (2020); Fissure (2020); Days of rage (2019); The migrant mixtape (2017); By the wind (2016)
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