Direction: Jalal Toufic
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jalal Toufic. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Attempt 137 to Map the Drive (S)
2012 · Documentary · 7 min. · Lebanon
Direction Graziella Rizkallah · Jalal Toufic
Plot Keywords: videotaped in Beirut's central district circa 2000; Toufican ruins; labyrinth; drive (also in the sense of Trieb); taxi driver in Beirut dying to figure out why his customer would...
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An Indefinite Visit to Hong Kong, Solaris (S)
2016 · Documentary · 19 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Graziella Rizkallah · Jalal Toufic
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Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps
2013 · Movie · 75 min. · Lebanon
Direction Jalal Toufic
Plot In Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps," having just rushed out of a theater where gunshots were heard, a woman asks the man standing next to her: "May I come home with...
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Ah Istanbul (S)
2014 · Documentary · 20 min. · Turkey
Direction Graziella Rizkallah · Jalal Toufic
Plot Once I missed my bus in Istanbul only to find myself, inexplicably, in the Imaginal World ('âlam al-mithâl/'âlam al-khayâl). Not long after, I missed my ferry in Istanbul to find...
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Mother and Son; or, That Obscure Object of Desire (Scenes from an Anamorphic Double Feature)
2006 · Movie · 41 min. · Lebanon
Direction Jalal Toufic
Cast Aleksei Ananishnov · Gudrun Geyer
Plot My experience of collaborating in an untimely manner with Gus Van Sant was not a happy one. Had he heeded my suggestions, he would not have tried to do a...
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Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green
1995 · Documentary · 43 min. · Lebanon
Direction Jalal Toufic
Cast Fanar Mental Hospital Inmates · Walid Raad · Jalal Toufic
Plot With his hand-held video camera, Jalal Toufic presents faces of ordinary people living in a war-ravaged country. He begins with a 1987 US state department document invalidating US passports for...
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