Event Details
May 27, 2021
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Pacific
Country: Belgium, Lebanon
Director: Angie Obeid
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: Whenever I walk through the dark reddish hallways to reach my apartment, whenever I would look out of my windows and dive into that expended view of the city of Brussels, unusual feelings would emerge. Until the day I read an article about my building PACIFIC, entitled “the suicide tower”.
Foam (Écume)
Country: Canada
Director: Omar Elhamy
Length: 28 mins
Synopsis: The car repair shop is their second home and their colleagues are like family. Everyone has their quirks and is accepted for the way they are. But then comes the bad news: they are soon to be squeezed out by a more lucrative new building project. How should they respond? How can they support each other? A buddy film about life’s little and larger transformations, about social class and solidarity, captured in sensitively telling images.
Clench My Fists
Country: United States
Director: Sarah Trad
Length: 6 mins
Synopsis: A found-footage collage video that explores the process of growing up in an Arab family deeply affected by death and grief. “Clench My Fists” is part of a series of work focusing on not only decolonizing Imperialist Western understandings of the Middle East but to also show the beauty of the artist’s heritage, outside the context of her family.
The Girls Who Burned The Night//من يحرقن الليل
Country: Saudi Arabia
Director: Sara Mesfer
Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: In an engagement night, a denied request pushes two sisters to their edge. Salsabel, a 13 years old Saudi girl who fights to go to the grocery shop in a city where it’s socially unacceptable experiences hardship in her relationship with her older sister Wasan who the fear of the night’s darkness and refuses to go. Later that day, the two sisters find a way to their desires by burning the night.
And The Night Will Carry Us
Country: Tunisia
Director: Koudhai Amine
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: A dog walks at night.
One Of Us Left The Photo//أحدنا غادر الصورة
Country: Syria
Director: Malas Twins
Length: 16 mins
Synopsis: A Syrian refugee lives in France with his French woman. His twin brother, pro the Syrian regime, arrives unexpectedly from Syria and lives with them in the same house.
Aziza
Country: Syria, Lebanon
Director: Soudade Kaadan
Length: 13 mins
Synopsis: Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.