TAFF2024: Opening Night Screenings “Better//باتر” and “First Sky//السماء الأولى”

Better Still

Event Details
June 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Screenings:

Better//باتر
  • Better//باتر

    Country: France, Morocco
    Director: Kamal Ourahou
    Length: 92 mins
    Synopsis: Between 2009 and 2011, I filmed and edited Nassim Lachhab’s very first skateboarding videos in Rabat, Morocco. In 2020, after having lived in France and Spain, Nassim became the first Moroccan and African professional skater in history. Ever since then, I kept wondering: What had it been like for Nassim to rise to the forefront of the international skate scene, all the while wrestling with the challenges of immigration? In what way did his groundbreaking trajectory resonate with the current state of Morocco’s skateboarding scene? – Kamal Ourahou

First Sky//السماء الأولى
  • First Sky//السماء الأولى

    Country: Egypt
    Director: Lena Naassana
    Length: 19 mins
    Synopsis: A young skater from Alexandria receives a Super 8 camera from his older brother who has recently emigrated. Over the course of a long summer by the sea, he begins to use the camera in the hopes of reconnecting with his brother.