Eli Jean Tahchi

Eli Jean Tahchi is a Lebanese Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Documentary, receiving nods at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards 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 26th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2024 for Outside Center.

Biography A graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Canada in 2011 to study film at the Université de Montréal and the Institut national de l'image et du son. He later stated that moving to Quebec helped to establish his identity as an "Arab-Quebecer-LGBTQ-citizen-of-the-world artist".

In 2024 he created La Dernière communion, a comedy-drama web series about three Roman Catholic priests rebuilding their lives after retiring from the priesthood. The series premiered theatrically in October at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Prix Fonds Bell, before premiering on the website of Télé-Québec in December.

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 - 2025