Event Details
May 27, 2021
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Sukar//سُكَّر
Country: Morocco
Director: Illias El Faris
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: Casablanca’s beach, Morocco. Teenager’s desire for each other is growing discreetly. Adults and children oversee. A fight creates a diversion.
Mutts (Clebs)//كلب
Country: Canada, Morocco
Director: Halima Ouardiri
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.
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.
And The Night Will Carry Us
Country: Tunisia
Director: Koudhai Amine
Length: 11 mins
Synopsis: A dog walks at night.
Jardins Paradise
Country: Canada
Director: Yza Nouiga
Length: 6 mins
Synopsis: Garden of Eden, jardin à la française, English, Zen, Bahai, Arab-Islamic: Gardens reflect history, culture and heritage. They are some of the rare places where intimacy, gatherings, fun and religion coexist. And, what if Paradise was nothing more than a green parking lot designed to suit each and everyone’s own preferences?
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