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Eli Jean Tahchi

Eli Jean Tahchi

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Biography

Eli Jean Tahchi is a Lebanese filmmaker, editor, and actor based in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a Bachelor degree in film production from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA). In 2011, he moved to Canada and earned a Master's degree from the University of Montreal.

Known For

Transplant
7.5

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

Transplant

2020
La dernière communion
N/A

No description available.

La dernière communion

2024
Nadia, Butterfly
5.7

While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.

Nadia, Butterfly

2020
Days of Rage
3.3

Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into crisis, push him into provocative encounters, and jeopardize his relationship.

Days of Rage

2019
0004ngel
N/A

To support his mother in Mexico, Angel, a nude dancer, turns the web into his new stage.

0004ngel

2025
Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée
N/A

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th century. The square is still at the heart of social conflicts in Quebec, 150 years later.

Dorchester: au coeur de la mêlée

2025
Sometimes I Wish I Was On a Desert Island
N/A

As the world learns to live again in the midst of the pandemic, for many Arabic-speaking LGBTQ+ people living in Montreal, this is just a period of time like any other. When you’ve fled homophobic violence in your home country and endured a painful migratory journey, or you still face social prejudices stemming from intercultural and intergenerational conflicts, surviving social isolation is nothing new.

Sometimes I Wish I Was On a Desert Island

2020
By the Wind
3.0

Margot, 60 years old., lives in a remote country house and takes care of her autistic son, Marc-André. The sudden disappearance of the dog disrupts their quiet life on the frozen lake in Northern Quebec.

By the Wind

2017
Fissure
N/A

In the heart of a popular neighbourhood of Montreal, Fissure is the portrait of Father Robert and his coordinator Jenny who carry the last church in the neighbourhood at arm's length. Set against a backdrop of religious decline, this short documentary testifies to what goes through us when our world collapses.

Fissure

2019
The Migrant Mixtape
N/A

Arab LGBT individuals send Helem Montreal the Migrant Mixtape, a series of recorded letters. They are asking for support to seek asylum in Canada in order to escape persecution and homophobic violence in their country of origin. One of them, Adib Mardini, having managed to become a refugee in Canada, tells us about the process that changed his life.

The Migrant Mixtape

2017
Outside Center
N/A

Finding community via his gay rugby league, Jamaican-born Desmond navigates life, love, and identity as an immigrant living in Munich, Germany.

Outside Center

2023
Neighbors in My Backyard
N/A

Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.

Neighbors in My Backyard

2021
The Migrant Woman
N/A

Following the publication of an announcement on the social networks inviting all interested canadian women (actresses, dancers and lovers of cinema) to present for a casting (without specifying neither age nor physical traits), in order to play the role of a veiled woman in a short film in preparation. 11 women were interviewed and each in turn had entered a proximate place with a complex subject such as the veiled female figure and the veil. the two casting sessions don't try to understand or find answers to questions related to this subject but it will help us in our research on this topic and in the collection of data and testimonials. Everything goes through a veil, bodies and looks. After the audition, we decided to turn the rushes into a short documentary.

The Migrant Woman

2015