Arab American National Museum (AANM) Arab Film Festival is proud to recognize and elevate amazing filmmakers who are coming onto the scene and making a huge impact! Believe it or not, these films are the first creations for these directors. These films focus on a wide variety of topics but are all beautifully created. Whether we're in need of that Arab American superhero to fight Islamophobia, making difficult choices to care for our family, cultivating new beginnings back in our homeland or emerging as an entrepreneur, these films are brought to life by emerging filmmakers, filmmakers to be aware of.
This short block of films is available for streaming to all audiences across the globe between August 12-21, 2022.
A young man follows a woman's directions, which are supposed to take him to a forest campsite.
About the Filmmaker
Akram Adouani studied Cinema at the University of Montreal and The Ecole des Arts et du Cinema in Tunis. He was novel writer at 15-years-old, with "WITHOUT IDENTITY".
He started in Cinema as an editor for the documentary series HISTOIRES EN MEDITERRANEE (2005) produced in Tunisia and, as assistant director, he was involved in the short documentary SUK-EL GRANA produced with the support of Fondazione Mediterraneo (Italy, 2007).
He co-directed the award-winning documentaries THE ENEMY WITHIN (Italy, 2009), screened in Sole Luna Film Festival, Palermo (2009) and broadcasted by Aljazeera English Channel . His film Abdelkader (2015) was selected, among others, in the main competition at the Alexandria Film Festival (Egypt 2016).
He was also Unit Production Manager in Europe for the film HANTED PAST by Fatma Riahi (2018), screened at Hot Docs 2019 and IDFA 2018. He is currently working on the pre-production of his first feature length film CARNIVAL, and on the post-production of THE HUNTER OF TORTURERS, a length documentary film.
- Year2022
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryTunisia
- PremiereMichigan Premiere
- RatingPG-13
- NoteTriggering Situations/Dialogue
- DirectorAkram Adouani
- ScreenwriterAkram Adouani
- ProducerAkram Adouani, Tra-Mi Im-Art
- CastTra-Mi Im-Art, Karima Oueslati, Noureddine Mihoub
Arab American National Museum (AANM) Arab Film Festival is proud to recognize and elevate amazing filmmakers who are coming onto the scene and making a huge impact! Believe it or not, these films are the first creations for these directors. These films focus on a wide variety of topics but are all beautifully created. Whether we're in need of that Arab American superhero to fight Islamophobia, making difficult choices to care for our family, cultivating new beginnings back in our homeland or emerging as an entrepreneur, these films are brought to life by emerging filmmakers, filmmakers to be aware of.
This short block of films is available for streaming to all audiences across the globe between August 12-21, 2022.
A young man follows a woman's directions, which are supposed to take him to a forest campsite.
About the Filmmaker
Akram Adouani studied Cinema at the University of Montreal and The Ecole des Arts et du Cinema in Tunis. He was novel writer at 15-years-old, with "WITHOUT IDENTITY".
He started in Cinema as an editor for the documentary series HISTOIRES EN MEDITERRANEE (2005) produced in Tunisia and, as assistant director, he was involved in the short documentary SUK-EL GRANA produced with the support of Fondazione Mediterraneo (Italy, 2007).
He co-directed the award-winning documentaries THE ENEMY WITHIN (Italy, 2009), screened in Sole Luna Film Festival, Palermo (2009) and broadcasted by Aljazeera English Channel . His film Abdelkader (2015) was selected, among others, in the main competition at the Alexandria Film Festival (Egypt 2016).
He was also Unit Production Manager in Europe for the film HANTED PAST by Fatma Riahi (2018), screened at Hot Docs 2019 and IDFA 2018. He is currently working on the pre-production of his first feature length film CARNIVAL, and on the post-production of THE HUNTER OF TORTURERS, a length documentary film.
- Year2022
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryTunisia
- PremiereMichigan Premiere
- RatingPG-13
- NoteTriggering Situations/Dialogue
- DirectorAkram Adouani
- ScreenwriterAkram Adouani
- ProducerAkram Adouani, Tra-Mi Im-Art
- CastTra-Mi Im-Art, Karima Oueslati, Noureddine Mihoub