Film

Born in the Maelstrom

5.0201728mDrama

Director: Meryam Joobeur
Year: 2017

Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.

Top cast

Sasha Lane

Rebecca

Karen Glave

Venus

Sam Ashe Arnold

Tobey

Hasani Freeman

Tom

Rose Langlois

Sarah

Dawn Ford

Choir Leader

Nadine Jean

Piano player

Marie-Ève Frenière

Sarah's Mom

Directed by

Meryam Joobeur

Written by

Meryam Joobeur

Produced by

Sylvain Corbeil, Hany Ouichou