December 10th - 11th, 2021 Film Festival

InFocus: Middle Eastern Cinema Short Films + Filmmaker Q&A

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6 films + livestream in package
When We Were Pirates
Two Arab-American childhood friends reunite at thirty, after one of them unearths a marriage pact that they had made as teenagers and decides to check on its validity.
Hello Mother
A first generation Armenian American LGBTQ+ 30 year old woman living in LA faces the repercussions of coming out to her Armenian mother after a night with her girlfriend.
Incurable
In a southern region of Iran, a girl has been lost. her brother and her sister in law are looking for her, but there is a mystery behind this.
Selahy (My Weapon)
A young, deaf Arab girl, born in the ravages of a war zone, whose only weapons are her hearing aids and an old video camera.
Over My Dead Body
When a young Jewish Persian-American woman tells her parents that her fiance is Muslim, they make her choose between him and them.
Leylak
In present day Queens, New York, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth, and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.
Filmmaker Q&A | Middle Eastern Cinema Short Films
External livestream

A selection of short films from Middle Eastern filmmakers who have made their work all over the world – the UAE, Jordan, Iran – as well as in the US. They tell deeply meaningful stories of reconnection, generational strife, the horrors of war, and the human impact of the pandemic. The block includes the Tribeca award-winning short Layak, by co-directors Scott Aharoni and Dennis Latos.

Live Q&A with the filmmakers on Zoom! Recordings must be requested and aren't guaranteed.

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