TAFF2022: Screening “Don’t Get Too Comfortable”

Country: Yemen, Qatar, United States, Netherlands
Director: Shaima Al Tamimi
Length: 9 mins
Synopsis: Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora. The film fuses archival photographs, sourced footage, parallax animation, abstract videos to create an audio visual body of work that calls attention to the collective feeling of statelessness and sense of being felt by Yemeni (or non-Yemeni) migrants.