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)
VIFF Short Forum
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Short Forum 1: The Scarier One
The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.
Short Forum 2: Anthropomaxx
Dogs, frogs, hogs, and more!
Short Forum 3: Workers of the World
The grind of the working class in a system that betrays its promises.
Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
You don’t have to look far; life is beautiful!
Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else
If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.
Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!
Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.
Short Forum 7: War at Home
Truly, no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Short Forum 8: Queer Magic
Do you believe in magic?
Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality
Explorations of desire and intimacy serve both pain and pleasure.
Short Forum 10: Are the Kids Alright?
The future kinda depends on it.