Q

Genre:
Documentary

Year:
2023

Duration:
93 minutes

Cinematography: Jude Chehab

Editing: Fahd Ahmed

Production: Chehab Films LLC

Awards: - Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director – Tribeca Festival – NY, USA – 2023 - Grand Jury Prize for Best International First Feature - Sheffield DocFest – Sheffield, UK – 2023

Début Status: Jordanian Première

Synopsis

An intimate and haunting portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the insidious influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order in Lebanon on three generations of women in the Chehab family. Filmmaker Jude Chehab potently documents the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning, portraying the complexities of unseen power that intermesh the lives of those who love a woman whose heart is in the hands of someone else.

Director’s biography

Jude Chehab is an award-winning Lebanese American filmmaker whose richly layered visual and intimate personal shooting style was developed under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami’s final student group. Jude has been credited in collaborations with the BBC, Hot Docs, Refinery29, and Sesame Workshop. Her feature documentary, Q, was named one of the best documentaries of 2023 by Vogue Magazine. It was supported by: IDA, ITVS, TFI, and the Sundance Institute and won the Albert Maysles award for Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca and the Grand Jury Award for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest. The film won a Cinema Eye Honor and was nominated for two IDA awards. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and part of DOCNYC's '40 under 40' list. In 2021, Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.