TAFF2022: “Strange Encounters” Shorts Programme

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Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual

Screenings:

Strangers After Midnight
  • Strangers After Midnight

    Country: Syria
    Director: Kinda Youssef
    Length: 22 mins
    Synopsis: Moments that unfolded late one night in the life of four Syrian refugees in Paris.

Roadblock//حاجز
  • Roadblock//حاجز

    Country: France, Lebanon
    Director: Dahlia Nemlich
    Length: 16 mins
    Synopsis: Beirut 2019 – During the Revolution. On her way back from a protest, Farah, a young Lebanese woman and her French – Lebanese boyfriend, Anthony, are stopped at a roadblock held by two armed militiamen who have a bone to pick with Farah.

Nightfall//الشفق
  • Nightfall//الشفق

    Country: France
    Director: Roméo De Melo Martins
    Length: 26 mins
    Synopsis: On the 13th of July 2011, during a demonstration against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, the Syrian authorities arrest several intellectuals and artists. Among them, Ali Abou Georges, theater actor. After a night of interrogation, he is taken to the office of General Omar, the head of the Syrian intelligence service.

The Laughing Woo Woo
  • The Laughing Woo Woo

    Country: United States
    Director: Amir Youssef
    Length: 17 mins
    Synopsis: A proof-of-concept short film about Simsim – a lonesome Egyptian asylee in San Francisco with a wooingly contagious laugh, is battling his bizarre misfortunes to follow immigration procedures, and his only hope is his greedy lawyer Dale.

5:1
  • 5:1

    Country: Canada
    Director: Sara Ben-Saud
    Length: 8 mins
    Synopsis: Filmmaker Ben-Saud takes us into her family home, where she was confined with her parents and adult brother and sister during the early months of the lockdown, to experience the sometimes funny and sometimes challenging realities of pandemic coexistence.”

Co-presented with Canadian Arab Institute

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