About the movie
Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master and the worker the property.
Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges for Asian and African women to work in Lebanese households and assists his clients in choosing “mail-order” housemaids that will best suit their needs.
Advertisement, justice, police are on his side.
He decides to open his agency for us.
With the participation of:
Zein El Amin
Amal Barakat
Bernadette Hodeib
Rahel Zegeye
Image: Claire Mathon - Sound: Moncef Taleb - Editing: Rana Sabbagha - Sound Editing: Fadi Tabbal & Stephane Rives - Sound Mixing: Jean Guy Varan - Coproducers: Camille Laemle & Serge Lalou (Les Films d'Ici) - Ida Ven Bruusgaard & Eirin O Høgetveit (Medieoperatørene AS) - Produced by: Sabine Sidawi & Jinane Dagher (Orjouane Productions) - Written & Directed by: Maher Abi Samra
For more information about the film please contact: orjouaneproductions@gmail.com