SCREENINGS//عروض

  • TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 2

    TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 2

    Event Details
    June 1, 2023
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    04.23.2018//A Hail Mary
    • 04.23.2018//A Hail Mary

      Country: Canada
      Director: Faisal Karadsheh
      Length: 10 mins
      Synopsis: 04.23.2018// A Hail Mary explores the intricacies and unique challenges faced by Karadsheh’s family during their immigration to Toronto, from the widely-publicized death of his grandfather to the personal experiences and intimacies of home.

      This film was supported by the Toronto Arab Film x Trinity Square Video Filmmaker Commission.

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    Simo
    • Simo

      Country: Canada
      Director: Aziz Zoromba
      Length: 23 mins
      Synopsis: The usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between the two teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that may seriously impact the future of their family.

    Space Woman//إمرأة فضاء
    • Space Woman//إمرأة فضاء

      Country: Lebanon
      Director: Hadi Moussally
      Length: 20 mins
      Synopsis: Maha, in her sixties, decides at the dawn of her retirement life to realize her craziest dream in her own way

    Olive Planet//كوكب الزيتون
    • Olive Planet//كوكب الزيتون

      Country: Germany
      Director: Shehab Fatoum
      Length: 14 mins
      Synopsis: Jihad, who dreams of becoming a footballer on Oliver Planet, decides to stand by the uprising against the government and the army, but of course secretly.

    Back//العودة
    • Back//العودة

      Country: Netherlands, Syrian Arab Republic
      Director: Yazan Rabee
      Length: 7 mins
      Synopsis: What it is like to be confronted in the dead of night with mortal fear, trauma and displacement.

  • TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 3

    TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 3

    Event Details
    June 1, 2023
    07:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Kingdom of Strangers//مملكة الغرباء
    • Kingdom of Strangers//مملكة الغرباء

      Country: Egypt, United States
      Director: Randa Ali
      Length: 15 mins
      Synopsis: On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.

    He’s Dead Now//هو ميت ألان
    • He’s Dead Now//هو ميت ألان

      Country: Egypt
      Director: Tarek El Sherbeny
      Length: 12 mins
      Synopsis: Hazem is distraught after his family secrets are made public when his mother decides to expose his late father’s sexual affairs during his funeral rites.

    Crocodile Tears//تمساح
    • Crocodile Tears//تمساح

      Country: Egypt, Saudi Arabia
      Director: Khaled Moeit
      Length: 16 mins
      Synopsis: On a road that is overshadowed by its roamers, a Taxi driver takes off with his cousin who wants to deliver money to another city.

  • TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 4

    TAFF2023: Shorts Programme 4

    Event Details
    June 1, 2023
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Lower Ground//الطابق السفلي
    • Lower Ground//الطابق السفلي

      Country: Lebanon, United Kingdom
      Director: Firas Itani
      Length: 13 mins
      Synopsis: When a concierge begins to prepare dinner for his nephew, a resident demands his immediate assistance. The concierge finds himself torn between attending to his employer’s never-ending requests and the boy’s growing hunger. Left unsupervised, the boy sets out to make his dinner, ultimately taking a drastic turn.

    The Disaster Cannot Be Contained//كان يمكن أن لا أكون
    • The Disaster Cannot Be Contained//كان يمكن أن لا أكون

      Country: Netherlands, Lebanon
      Director: Diana Al-Halabi
      Length: 25 mins
      Synopsis: Starting with her obsessive love of ports, filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi narrates her experience on a tugboat in the port of Beirut in 2017.

    Killing Bagheera//بطلان
    • Killing Bagheera//بطلان

      Country: Germany
      Director: Muschirf Shekh Zeyn
      Length: 13 mins
      Synopsis: Alan and Bekes are refugees and want to enter Europe. This simple premise forms the narrative for a claustrophobic and intense drama surrounding friendship, courage, dreams and how the other half life.

    Traces//آثار
    • Traces//آثار

      Country: Canada, Lebanon
      Director: Chantal Partamian
      Length: 9 mins
      Synopsis: In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film.

  • TAFF2024: Opening Night Screenings “Better//باتر” and “First Sky//السماء الأولى”

    TAFF2024: Opening Night Screenings “Better//باتر” and “First Sky//السماء الأولى”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    Better//باتر
    • Better//باتر

      Country: France, Morocco
      Director: Kamal Ourahou
      Length: 92 mins
      Synopsis: Between 2009 and 2011, I filmed and edited Nassim Lachhab’s very first skateboarding videos in Rabat, Morocco. In 2020, after having lived in France and Spain, Nassim became the first Moroccan and African professional skater in history. Ever since then, I kept wondering: What had it been like for Nassim to rise to the forefront of the international skate scene, all the while wrestling with the challenges of immigration? In what way did his groundbreaking trajectory resonate with the current state of Morocco’s skateboarding scene? – Kamal Ourahou

    First Sky//السماء الأولى
    • First Sky//السماء الأولى

      Country: Egypt
      Director: Lena Naassana
      Length: 19 mins
      Synopsis: A young skater from Alexandria receives a Super 8 camera from his older brother who has recently emigrated. Over the course of a long summer by the sea, he begins to use the camera in the hopes of reconnecting with his brother.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “À toi Jeddi”

    TAFF2024: Screening “À toi Jeddi”

    Event Details
    June 29, 2024
    1:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    À toi Jeddi
    • À toi Jeddi

      Country: Canada
      Director: Sara Ben-saud
      Length: 61 mins
      Synopsis: After discovering the memoirs of her Libyan grandfather, Sara decides to go and discover her paternal origins.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “All Roads Lead to More”

    TAFF2024: Screening “All Roads Lead to More”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    All Roads Lead to More
    • All Roads Lead to More

      Country: Germany
      Director: Afraa Batous
      Length: 78 mins
      Synopsis: To cope with the daily trauma of a lost home, Syrian filmmaker Afraa Batous is filming her friends as they plan to embark on their first road trip ever.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “And If Not Now, When?”

    TAFF2024: Screening “And If Not Now, When?”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    And If Not Now, When?
    • And If Not Now, When?

      Country: Belgium, Morocco
      Director: Guy De Troyer
      Length: 28 mins
      Synopsis: This essay documentary makes an intimate journey into the world of Paulette, one of the last remaining Jews in Marrakech who decided to stay and is reflecting on a universal question: where do you feel at home?

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Goodbye Julia//وداعاً جوليا”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Goodbye Julia//وداعاً جوليا”

    Event Details
    June 21, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    Goodbye Julia//وداعاً جوليا
    • Goodbye Julia//وداعاً جوليا

      Country: Sudan
      Director: Mohamed Kordofani
      Length: 116 mins
      Synopsis: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Light upon Light//نور على نور”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Light upon Light//نور على نور”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Light upon Light//نور على نور
    • Light upon Light//نور على نور

      Country: Egypt
      Director: Christian Suhr
      Length: 78 mins
      Synopsis: A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Mandoob//مندوب الليل”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Mandoob//مندوب الليل”

    Event Details
    June 30, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    Mandoob//مندوب الليل
    • Mandoob//مندوب الليل

      Country: Saudi Arabia
      Director: Ali Kalthami
      Length: 110 mins
      Synopsis: A mentally fragile man working as a night courier gets caught up in an illegal alcohol ring.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح”

    Event Details
    June 28, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح
    • Six Feet Over//ما فوق الضريح

      Country: France, Algeria
      Director: Karim Bensalah
      Length: 96 mins
      Synopsis: Son of a former Algerian diplomat Sofiane lived his entire life to this point abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and is living under the threat of expulsion.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Tadur”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Tadur”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Tadur//تدور
    • Tadur//تدور

      Country: Lebanon
      Director: Jad Andari
      Length: 50 mins
      Synopsis: A young farmer on the outskirts of a mountain village wastes away with gangsters and prostitutes who lurk in the forest.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Take My Breath//المايين”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Take My Breath//المايين”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Take My Breath//المايين
    • Take My Breath//المايين

      Country: Tunisia
      Director: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh
      Length: 95 mins
      Synopsis: When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “The Factory”

    TAFF2024: Screening “The Factory”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    The Factory
    • The Factory

      Country: Syria
      Director: Yanal Mansour
      Length: 46 mins
      Synopsis: A feature documentary film that deals with a group of events experienced by Captain Maher, a firefighter who, through a personal voluntary initiative, enters public schools teaching a subject he called “public safety,” where students are taught a set of ways to survive possible mistakes caused by war or environmental disasters.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة”

    TAFF2024: Screening “The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة
    • The Last Queen//الملكة الأخيرة

      Country: Algeria
      Director: Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad
      Length: 110 mins
      Synopsis: Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “The Old Oak”

    TAFF2024: Screening “The Old Oak”

    Event Details
    June 30, 2024
    4:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    The Old Oak
    • The Old Oak

      Country: 2023
      Director: Ken Loach
      Length: 113 mins
      Synopsis: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “The Soil and the Sea//بحر و تراب”

    TAFF2024: Screening “The Soil and the Sea//بحر و تراب”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    The Soil and the Sea//بحر و تراب
    • The Soil and the Sea//بحر و تراب

      Country: Lebanon
      Director: Daniele Rugo
      Length: 74 mins
      Synopsis: In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a missing relative or at least a bone to bury The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “The Tedious Tour of M//جولة ميم المملة”

    TAFF2024: Screening “The Tedious Tour of M//جولة ميم المملة”

    Event Details
    June 29, 2024
    4:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    The Tedious Tour of M//جولة ميم المملة
    • The Tedious Tour of M//جولة ميم المملة

      Country: Egypt
      Director: Hend Bakr
      Length: 76 mins
      Synopsis: A peanuts street vendor who turned into one of the stars of the modern history of Egyptian literature in the sixties, comes back to his hometown and cocoons for 30 years. He claims that he was doomed to stop writing forever.

  • TAFF2024: Screening “Valley of Exile//وادي المنفى”

    TAFF2024: Screening “Valley of Exile//وادي المنفى”

    Event Details
    June 23, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

    Screenings:

    Valley of Exile//وادي المنفى
    • Valley of Exile//وادي المنفى

      Country: Canada
      Director: Anna Fahr
      Length: 107 mins
      Synopsis: Set in the early years of the Syrian war, Valley of Exile chronicles the journey of Rima and Nour, two sisters who find unexpected refuge in a makeshift settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after fleeing war-torn Damascus.

  • TAFF2024: Shorts Programme “(De)Liberation”

    TAFF2024: Shorts Programme “(De)Liberation”

    Event Details
    June 20, 2024
    7:00 PM EDT
    Virtual

    Screenings:

    Beneath a Mother’s Feet//تحت أقدام أم
    • Beneath a Mother’s Feet//تحت أقدام أم

      Country: United Kingdom, Morocco
      Director: Elias Suhail
      Length: 15 mins
      Synopsis: A single mother in Morocco, trapped in a mundane existence, confronts her dreams and fears, leading to the agonising decision to forsake all she knows, even her children.

    What Else Grows On The Palm Of Your Hand?
    • What Else Grows On The Palm Of Your Hand?

      Country: Belgium, Morocco
      Director: Dhiaa Biya
      Length: 16 mins
      Synopsis: The routines of two women fuse together as their similar gestures get repeated over time. Their hands intersect through their shared memory one movement at a time.

    A Dog, A Stone
    • A Dog, A Stone//كلب، حجرة

      Country: Tunisia
      Director: Asma Laajimi
      Length: 13 mins
      Synopsis: Mariem, a sex worker, tries to reach Dali. Her unrest grows when she fears he will break the promise to give her a double mattress.

    On the Sidelines
    • On the Sidelines

      Country: France
      Director: Kahina Ben Amar
      Length: 20 mins
      Synopsis: Amra recently left her family to make her professional football debut. But her grandparents who raised her aren’t young anymore, and she isn’t sure her younger sister is trustworthy. Worried, she comes back to her family for a weekend.