12/08/2023
The film "Q" kept the audience focused in front of the screen at DokuKino for an hour and a half.
Director Jude Chehab's documentary follows the insidious approach of a secret matriarchal religious order in Lebanon on three women in the Chehab family. This film documents the unspoken bonds and causes of loyalty that have bound the mother, and herself, to the mysterious group.
The director wanted to reveal the details of the Al-Qubaysiat group, a secret organization of Muslim women, which stands so as not to be understood.
The director takes a camera in her hand and starts asking her grandmother and mother about the history of the group and about the teacher who worked there.
The questions asked during this documentary revealed the enormous influence this group had on women practicing Islam.
"Q" also explains how women were secretly manipulated by this matriarchal group in Lebanon. In addition, the experiences of Chehab's mother are unfolded, how she was emotionally attached to a woman who was a teacher in that community, a unilateral sincere friendship that led Chehab's mother to great suffering.
Through the film, Jude Chehab managed to untie the knots of unrequited love for the teacher who refused to continue her friendship with her mother. The director noted that after the release of the film, her mother was prejudiced.
"After the screening of the film, people on social networks wrote things about my mother, saying that she sold her religion for the red carpet."
The film was shoot intimately recounting the life of her parents, her grandmother, and her family, a story that belongs to Arab culture.
The viewer can distinguish the powerful influence that this group has had on this family, nevertheless, the relationships within the family have remained unbreakable, with great understanding for each other.
By: Valona Hasani
Photo: Kushtrim Haxha
