Outside Center

Outside Center

Directed by Eli Jean Tahchi

Genre short film
Country Canada (Québec), Germany
Year 2023
Length 20m11s
Formats DCP
Sound 5.1
Version English subtitles, French subtitles, German

Synopsis

After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his identity.

Themes

sport, identity

Biography

Eli Jean Tahchi's committed cinema is sharp, human and metaphorically charged, and in which the LGBTQ+ topics and the notion of identity are regularly tackled. Since 2011, he has accumulated projects of various genres, culturally diverse and awarded at festivals around the world.

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Cast

Desmond Grant


Marsha Baumgartner
Iris Lawrence
Armin Ant
Dejvi Dashi
Thor Gotschal
Andreas Grewe
Stefan Scharnagl
Adam Schilling
Lelino

Team

Production

Béatrice Moukhaiber, L'inis x HFF München
Script

Eli Jean Tahchi
CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rita Hajjar
EDITING Eli Jean Tahchi
Sound Tizian Stromp, Benoît Dame
Music Youssef Nassar, Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala

Awards

Regensburg Short Film Festival Week, Germany |2023| *Best Film (Bayernfenster Competition)

Festivals

Interfilm Berlin, Germany |2023|
Regensburg Short Film Festival Week, Germany |2023| *Best Film (Bayernfenster Competition)
Dok.Fest Munich, Germany |2023|
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada |2023|
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada |2023|
Vues d’Afrique, Canada |2023|
Landshut Film Festival, Germany |2024|
Diaspora Film Festival, South Korea |2024|
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Canada |2024|
Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay, Canada |2024|