Event Details
May 29, 2022
2:30 pm EDT
Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M6H 1M2
Screenings:
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
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
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
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
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.”