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Q

(Jude Chehab, 2023)

Jude Chehab in person

Midwest Premiere

An archival photo of a group of six women all wearing white hijabs and blouses with their arms raised towards the ceiling.

Jude Chehab joins us for the Midwest premiere of Q, an intimate look at how questions of spirituality, devotion, and loss are asked and answered across generations.

Chehab's debut feature Q leads viewers deep into the emotional and spiritual worlds of her family, exploring the fraught impact of a secretive Lebanese matriarchal religious order on three generations of women. Filled to the brim with poetry and wisdom, the director masterfully depicts the toll of decades of unflinching loyalty and unrequited love on her mother, grandmother, and herself. As Chehab tenderly yet persistently inquires into her family’s painful histories, she crafts a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. (91 mins., DCP)

Named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2021 by Filmmaker Magazine, Jude Chehab joins us in person and will participate in a Q&A after the screening.

See the complete Unorthodocs 2023 lineup.

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Q, courtesy of the filmmaker.

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"[Q explores], in a way that is both empathetic and objective, the nature of how love is used and abused, even with the best of intentions in mind, by those in power."
Jude Chehab

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council
CampusParc
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

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Axium Packaging
Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
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Bruce and Joy Soll
Jones Day
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