Shorts Programme: “Strange Encounters” (Virtual)
Virtual
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Strangers After Midnight
2021 | 22mins | Syria | Arabic
Moments that unfolded late one night in the life of four Syrian refugees in Paris.
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 […]
