Eli Jean Tahchi is a

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filmmaker based in

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. He is most noted as a two-time

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nominee for Best Short Documentary, receiving nods at the

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in 2022 for '' Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island (Y’a des fois où j’aimerais me trouver sur une île déserte)'', and at the

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in 2024 for '' Outside Center''. A graduate of the

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, he moved to Canada in 2011 to study film at the

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and the Institut national de l'image et du son.Samuel Larochelle
"Eli Jean Tahchi: The Importance of Telling Outsiders’ Stories"
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'', November 20, 2020. He later stated that moving to Quebec helped to establish his identity as an "Arab-Quebecer-

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-citizen-of-the-world artist". ''Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island'', about the social isolation of LGBTQ Muslims, was made as part of '' The Curve'', a

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series of short films on people's experiences during the

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. ''Outside Centre'', about a Jamaican immigrant finding community with a gay rugby team after immigrating to Germany, was made as a student film in his studies at INIS, but became the first INIS student film ever to be acquired for commercial distribution. In 2024 he created ''La Dernière communion'', a comedy-drama web series about three

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priests rebuilding their lives after retiring from the priesthood. The series premiered theatrically in October at the

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, where it was the winner of the Prix Fonds Bell,Marie-Hélène Paquin
"Prodigieuses remporte les honneurs au Festival du cinéma international"

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Abitibi-Témiscamingue, November 1, 2024. before premiering on the website of

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in December.Logan Cartier
"La dernière communion, la comédie sur les religieux qu’on a aimée plus qu’on pensait!"
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'', November 27, 2024.

Filmography

*''Geometry'' - 2014 *''She Is Lars'' - 2014 *''The Migrant Woman (La Femme migrante)'' - 2015 *''By the Wind (Au gré du vent)'' - 2016 *''The Migrant Mixtape (La Cassette Migrante)'' - 2017 *''Days of Rage (Jours de rage)'' - 2019 *''Fissure'' - 2019 *'' Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island (Y’a des fois où j’aimerais me trouver sur une île déserte)'' - 2020 *''Neighbors in My Backyard (Des voisins dans ma cour)'' - 2021 *'' Outside Center'' - 2023 *''La Dernière communion'' - 2024 *''0004ngel'' - 2024

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tahchi, Eli Jean 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people 21st-century Lebanese LGBTQ people Canadian documentary film directors Canadian LGBTQ film directors Film directors from Quebec Lebanese emigrants to Canada Living people Université de Montréal alumni Lebanese film directors Year of birth missing (living people)