Event

Scribe Video Center, located at 3908 Lancaster Avenue, is excited to be showing the award-winning film "Q" by Jude Chehab. This screening is part of our Producers’ Forum program. Jude Chehab will be joining us in person for a post- screening discussion on November 17, followed the next afternoon by a Special Learning Session (Resisting the Western Gaze with Jude Chehab), November 18 at 1:00 PM.

About the Film: 

Where do we draw the line between love and devotion? An intimate and haunting portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, "Q" depicts the insidious influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order in Lebanon on three generations of women in the Chehab family.

Filmmaker Jude Chehab documents the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother,and herself to a secretive matriarchal religious order. A masterful portrait of the toll that decades of unrequited love, lost hope, abuse, and despair takes on a person, "Q" is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning. A love story of a different kind, this documentary delicately portrays the complexities of the unseen power that intermesh the lives of those who love a woman whose heart is in the hands of someone else.

“Cinema deals with the subjective, but true cinema is a chimera; it holds the familiar, the recognizable, the immediately human and most intimate in a flash, a second, a moment, a frame. "Q" is a question, and it is a question which transcends the lens of its subject; like looking through a keyhole into a wide expanse beyond; it opens and frames at heart a profound exploration of love, loss, faith and obsession. This story is unique but it is not an isolated one.” – excerpt from Director’s Statement. 

"Q" is a graceful, assured, and affectingly personal first feature from Jude Chehab." –  Alliance of Women Film Journalists

WINNER Albert Maysles Award for Best New

Documentary Director (Tribeca Festival)

WINNER Grand Jury Award for Best International First Feature (Sheffield DocFest)

Special Learning Session: Resisting the Western Gaze with Jude Chehab

Jude Chehab's award winning feature debut, "Q", is a powerful familial love story that only she could tell. In this special learning session, Jude takes us through the arduous journey to complete her first feature-length documentary on her terms, and shares insights for those creating counternarratives.