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Mother Valley, أرض الوهم won:
- The Audience Award in Cinemed, Mediterranean Film Festival Montpellier, 2022
- The Best Arab Film Award in Cairo International Film Festival, 2022
The film will be released in France next spring, 2023.
Mother Valley, أرض الوهم won:
The film will be released in France next spring, 2023.
“Carlos Chahine gives a commanding performance as the desolate Abu Firas, a man driven mad by two casualties of war: his son and the truth.” Financial Times, Sarah Hemming
“Carlos Chahine’s tragically dignified schoolteacher, whose insistence on his right to view the human remains in his son’s ceremonial coffin can have no happy outcome.” The Observer, Claire Armistead
“There are good performances from Carlos Chahine as the questioning teacher.” The gardian.com
“The service is interrupted by a grief-stricken teacher (Carlos Chahine, a tragic figure) whose son has been killed.” Mature times
“Carlos Chahine as Abu Firas delivers a powerful performance throughout, a man broken by the loss of his son.” Sardines magazine
“In the centre of the somewhat ramshackle story is Abu Firas played with real heart by Carlos Chahine.” British theatre.com
Born in Lebanon, Carlos Chahine left for France in 1975 because of the war. After obtaining a dental surgery diploma, Carlos enlisted in the ENSAD, (acting session), of the TNS, the National Theater of Strasbourg.
He has worked under the direction of prestigious directors such as Matthias Langhoff, Sylviu Purcarete, Alain Françon, Michel Vinaver, René Loyon, Philippe Adrien, Stuart Seide, Philippe Van Kessel, and many others. He came back to Lebanon after an encounter with the director Ghassan Salhab, acting in three of his movies.
In 2008 he wrote, directed and acted in The North Road, his first short film that won several international awards. Since then Carlos often returns to his homeland where he directed several plays in Beirut in new Arabic/Lebanese translations, God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies and Illusions by Ivan Viripaev. He also shot a documentary/essay, Chekhov in Beirut, and a short film, The Gambler’s Son. His three films are a familial intimate trilogy about the father, the mother and the son. Mother Valley, his first feature, will be released in 2023.
Goats (London)
(Main shows France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, England, Lebanon)
Hamish Pirie | Goats, Liwaa Yazji |
Carlos Chahine | The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov |
Philippe Awat | La Tempête, Shakespeare |
Walid Raad | Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, Walid Raad |
Anouch Paré | Le Suicidé, Nicolai Erdman |
Michel Vinaver | À La Renverse, Michel Vinaver |
Iphigénie Hôtel, Michel Vinaver | |
Christian Rist | Phèdre, Racine |
Matthias Langhoff | L’inspecteur Général, Gogol |
Denis Lanoy | Le Misanthrope, Molière |
Sylviu Purcarete | Les Trois Soeurs, Tchékhov |
Alain Françon | La Dame de Chez Maxim, Feydeau |
La Remise, Planchon |
Jean Louis Jacopin | Le Procès de Charlotte Corday, Authier |
La Misère du Monde, Bourdieu | |
René Loyon | Chronique des Jours Souverains, Manceron/Segalen |
Cent Millions Qui Tombent, Feydeau | |
Viviane Théophilidès | Joe Bousquet, Rue de Verdun, Théophilidès |
Aristide Demonico | Le Golem, Théâtre Yiddish |
Stuart Seide | The Changelling, Middleton et Rowley |
Philippe Van Kessel | À La Conquête du Pôle Sud, Karge |
Jean Marie Villégier | Le Fidelle, Larivey |
Charlie Brozzoni | Don Quichotte, Cervantés |
Collectif de Parme | OEdipe à Colone, Sophocle |
The Cherry Orchard (Beirut)
Brandt Andersen | The stranger’s Case |
Ziad Doueiri | The Insult |
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Ghassan Salhab | The Valley |
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The Last Man (Best actor Singapore Int. Film Fest.) |
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Terra Incognita | |
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Olivier Assayas | Carlos |
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Raoul Ruiz | Le Vertige de La Feuille Blanche |
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Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis |
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Illusions / Viripaev
2018 – Monot theatre Beirut
Best Play at the Lebanese theatre festival
Dinner With Friends / Donald Margulies
2017 – Monot Theater Beirut
The Cherry Orchard / Tchekhov
2015 – Madina Theater Beirut
God Of Carnage / Yasmina Reza
2014 – Monot Theater Beirut
The Cherry Orchard
Mother Valley
(Feature Film)
2022
With Maryline Naaman, Antoine Harb-Merheb, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Rochefort.
The Gambler’s Son
(Short Film)
2018
for Mother Valley
Best Arab Film Award, in Cairo International Film Festival, 2022
Audience Award in Cinemed, Mediterranean Film Festival Montpellier, 2022
for Illusions
Best Play, Lebanese Theatre Festival 2018
for The North Road
Best Film, Dubai Film Festival. 2008
Best Film, Tribeca Film Festival, New York. 2009
Best Film, Open Film Festival, St Petersbourg. 2009
Best Film, International Arab film Festival, AMAL, Spain. 2009
Best Film, Saint Paul Les Trois Châteaux. 2009
Cinécinécourt Award, Montpellier Film Festival. 2008
Spécial mention for young audience award, Dignes Les Bains. 2009
Nominated for Jean Vigo award, nominated for Prix de la Critique, selected Lutins 2010.
for The Last Man
Best Actor, Singapore International Film Festival, 2006
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