Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Mariam//مريم
Country: Palestine
Director: Dana Durr
Length: 5 mins
Synopsis: After losing her precious paradise, Mariam undergoes a journey through her roots and history to find culture and continuity.
Nur El Qulub//نورالقلوب
Country: Canada
Director: Sawsan Alsaraf
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: Nur Al Qulub is an exploration of the spiritual dimension of shadow and light. Drawing from the director’s experiences as the end-of-life support person for many near and dear people in her life, this project seeks to ask questions about spiritual truth, transitions, and the unknown. Dwelling on the threshold of spaces of darkness leading to the light, shadow work and discomfort, and the material and the spiritual, Nur Al Qulub references AlSaraf’s deepest realizations around the meaning of life – and death.
The Song of Sin//نشيد الخطيئة
Country: France
Director: Khalid Maadour
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: The Song of Sin retraces the story of Sufunis and Youba, couple of Imediazens, a tribe of the rif located in the North East of Morocco. Poets and musicians, heirs to an ancestral art, they are ostracized by a society that is looking for itself. Much more than a love story, the story of a people, is played out on these windswept highlands, between resignation and combat.
Don’t Forget The Water//لا تنسى التسمية
Country: Canada
Director: Christina Hajjar
Length: 5 mins
Synopsis: A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge.
CloseCall
Country: Egypt, United States
Director: Amr El-Bayoumi, Matt Tsymbal
Length: 9 mins
Synopsis: An Egyptian-American businessman arrives in New York City to salvage a transaction that has his career hanging in the balance. Will a detour to the 9/11 Memorial jeopardize the deal?
Co-presented with Al Markaz.
