Event Details
May 27, 2021
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Ain’t No Time For Women//مفماش وقت للنساء
Country: Canada
Director: Sarra El Abed
Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.
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”.
Storm Child
Country: Canada
Director: Ines Guennaoui
Length: 12 mins
Synopsis: Storm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family are Algerian refugees who just arrived in Québec during the infamous 1998 ice storm.
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.
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