TAF2022 Shorts Programme: “Strange Encounters”

Strangers After Midnight

2021 | 22mins | Syria | Arabic
Moments that unfolded late one night in the life of four Syrian refugees in Paris.

Roadblock

2020 | 16mins | France, Lebanon | French
Beirut 2019 – During the Revolution. On her way back from a protest, Farah, a young Lebanese woman and her […]

Nightfall

2021 | 26mins | France | Arabic
On the 13th of July 2011, during a demonstration against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, the Syrian authorities […]

The Laughing Woo Woo

2022 | 17mins | United States | Arabic, English
A proof-of-concept short film about Simsim – a lonesome Egyptian asylee in San Francisco with a wooingly contagious laugh, is […]

5:1

2021 | 8mins | Canada | French
Filmmaker Ben-Saud takes us into her family home, where she was confined with her parents and adult brother and sister […]