Maryanne Zéhil

The Valley of Tears (2012)

Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Nathalie Coupal  •  Joseph Antaki  •  Wafa Tarabey  •  Leyla Hakim

Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Nathalie Coupal  •  Joseph Antaki  •  Wafa Tarabey  •  Leyla Hakim

The Other Side of November (2016)

Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Arsinée Khanjian  •  Marc Labrèche  •  Pascale Bussières  •  Donald Pilon

Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Arsinée Khanjian  •  Marc Labrèche  •  Pascale Bussières  •  Donald Pilon

From My Window, Without a Home (2006)

After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Louise Portal  •  Mariloup Wolfe  •  Leyla Hakim  •  Walid El-Alayli

After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Louise Portal  •  Mariloup Wolfe  •  Leyla Hakim  •  Walid El-Alayli

The Sticky Side of Baklava (2021)

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Jean-Nicolas Verreault  •  Claudia Ferri  •  Geneviève Brouillette  •  Raïa Haïdar

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Maryanne Zéhil
CAST:  Jean-Nicolas Verreault  •  Claudia Ferri  •  Geneviève Brouillette  •  Raïa Haïdar