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Outside Center

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

Director
Cast

Desmond Grant

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada/Germany

Year

2023

Language

In English, German and Jamaican Patois with English subtitles

Film Contact
18+
21 min

Credits

Producer

Béatrice Moukhaiber

Screenwriter

Eli Jean Tahchi

Cinematography

Rita Hajjar

Original Music

Youssef Nassar, Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala

Director

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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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