Christophe M. Saber
Directing
Biography
Born in Cairo, Egyptian/Swiss director Christophe M. Saber graduated from an American College in Cairo in 2009. He then completed a short school of digital filmmaking in the U.S before being admitted in the cinema department of the University of Arts and Design of Lausanne in Switzerland in 2010. He wrote and directed several fictions as well as documentaries and experimental films. In 2014, he graduated from ECAL with first class honors. Discipline is his diploma film and his documentary The Valley of Salt was selected for Hot Docs in 2016.
Known For
In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation and the discussion soon turns into a debate that gradually gets out of hand.
Discipline
Three best friends, Jimmy, Samy and Sofi, have the idea of a lifetime: transforming a chocolate vending machine into a pot-vending machine. Also, there’s a dog in the film.
Tomatic
The money has gone missing in the mosque of Saint-Etienne. Saoud, the gang leader is suspected.
Sacrilège
Two wannabe gangsters can't decide on the coolest thing to say before shooting Michel.
Punchline
19 Super 8 film reels, bought in a second hand store, make a young filmmaker take a plunge into the past of an unknown family. He decides to give back this holy shrine, full of memories, to their legitimate owner. When confronted with reality, the image of a perfect family vanishes. This movie is both an ethical gesture and an interesting essay on the relationship between movie pictures and memory.