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This screening is in partnership with Exodus Refugee Immigration. Exodus Refugee Immigration is dedicated to the protection of human rights by serving the resettlement needs of refugees and other displaced people fleeing persecution, injustice, and war by welcoming them to Indiana.
At first glance, Yosef is a typical American teenager. He’s unsure if college is the right path, works a restaurant job to help his family, and he carries the quiet, persistent hope that his life might hold something larger. However, he was born in Baghdad and fled with his family to Egypt after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2004. Of all places, they received asylum in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, as his younger sister Azraa travels back to Egypt, it reopens questions he has long kept at bay: Where does he belong? What does it mean to build a future in America? Is the life he is living truly his own?
Public Contact
Naveen Chaubal
hyphenfilmcenter@gmail.com
- Year2026
- Runtime85 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereMidwest Premiere
- GenreMiddle Eastern Cinema, Muslim Cinema, Asian/Asian American Cinema, Current Events/History, Drama
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- Social Media
- DirectorNaveen Chaubal
- ProducerBryn Silverman
- Executive ProducerMilan Chakraborty, Sanjay Sharma
- FilmmakerDarcy McKinnon, Michael Kinomoto
- CastYosef Al Windawi, Azraa Al Windawi
- CinematographerNaveen Chaubal
- EditorNaveen Chaubal, Bryn Silverman
- ComposerWill Epstein
- Sound DesignJoe Stockton
This screening is in partnership with Exodus Refugee Immigration. Exodus Refugee Immigration is dedicated to the protection of human rights by serving the resettlement needs of refugees and other displaced people fleeing persecution, injustice, and war by welcoming them to Indiana.
At first glance, Yosef is a typical American teenager. He’s unsure if college is the right path, works a restaurant job to help his family, and he carries the quiet, persistent hope that his life might hold something larger. However, he was born in Baghdad and fled with his family to Egypt after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2004. Of all places, they received asylum in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, as his younger sister Azraa travels back to Egypt, it reopens questions he has long kept at bay: Where does he belong? What does it mean to build a future in America? Is the life he is living truly his own?
Public Contact
Naveen Chaubal
hyphenfilmcenter@gmail.com
- Year2026
- Runtime85 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereMidwest Premiere
- GenreMiddle Eastern Cinema, Muslim Cinema, Asian/Asian American Cinema, Current Events/History, Drama
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- Social Media
- DirectorNaveen Chaubal
- ProducerBryn Silverman
- Executive ProducerMilan Chakraborty, Sanjay Sharma
- FilmmakerDarcy McKinnon, Michael Kinomoto
- CastYosef Al Windawi, Azraa Al Windawi
- CinematographerNaveen Chaubal
- EditorNaveen Chaubal, Bryn Silverman
- ComposerWill Epstein
- Sound DesignJoe Stockton
