On Your Ashes

Lebanon, August 2020. The explosion in the port of Beirut confronts Yasmeen and her father with the unsaid things about their past. In this quest for reconstruction, their relationship to the violence and tormented history of their country is redrawn.

Director & Screenwriter Joachim Michaux
Image Remi Jennequin
1st
Alexander Farah
Editor
Liyo Gong
Music Rabih Beaini, Donato Dozzy & Marco Shuttle
Sound Jad Asmar, Joachim Michaux
Mixing Yannick Delmaire
Sound editing
Ludivine Pele
Production (person)
Eric Prigent
Production (structure)
Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts

34

Minutes

2022

Release

Production

France

Bio – Filmography

Joachim Michaux was born in France in 1988 to a Belgian mother and a French father. Before switching focus to his own creative ideas, he worked for several years in the film industry with a notable period of time for the video distributor Blaq Out.
This experience allowed him to confront his vision with that of many filmmakers in the field of documentaries, fiction or experimental cinema; he thus worked on the distribution of films by Frederick Wiseman, Bruno Dumont, Claire Simon and Béla Tarr.
Joachim developed his practice by directing short documentary essays, with a self-taught approach at first before benefiting from a subvention that allowed him to make his film The American, selected in several international festivals. He was then admitted to Le Fresnoy, where he is currently sharpening his practice. His documentary work focuses on the invisible links between objective reality and the intimate perception of his subjects, addressing themes of memory, reconstruction and transcendence.