Screening the week of Thanksgiving, this series is a selection of the best short films from Mizna’s 2021 Arab Film Festival. Including Darine Hotait’s Tallahassee, the audience award winner for best short film, these fan favorites each demonstrate the complexity of family and belonging, and they explore the importance of communities, both made and inherited.
This shorts program is only available in the United States.
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and Alzheimer's grandfather about his identity.
About the filmmaker
Reem Jubran is a writer/director working between Palestine and Los Angeles, California in short and feature narratives. She is pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing/Writing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where she is directing her own short films after having worked two years as assistant director on Palestinian narrative features. She is inspired by women-led stories, flammable cultural taboos, and her identity as a transnational filmmaker. Her first feature in-development, “Sou-Sou '' was selected for Producer's Spotlight at the Palestine Pavilion, Cannes 2020 Marche du Film. She has a B.A. in Film Studies from UC Berkeley.
- Year2020
- Runtime12 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorReem Jubran
- ScreenwriterReem Jubran
- CastMaz Siam, Beto Ochoa, George Jubran
Screening the week of Thanksgiving, this series is a selection of the best short films from Mizna’s 2021 Arab Film Festival. Including Darine Hotait’s Tallahassee, the audience award winner for best short film, these fan favorites each demonstrate the complexity of family and belonging, and they explore the importance of communities, both made and inherited.
This shorts program is only available in the United States.
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and Alzheimer's grandfather about his identity.
About the filmmaker
Reem Jubran is a writer/director working between Palestine and Los Angeles, California in short and feature narratives. She is pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing/Writing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where she is directing her own short films after having worked two years as assistant director on Palestinian narrative features. She is inspired by women-led stories, flammable cultural taboos, and her identity as a transnational filmmaker. Her first feature in-development, “Sou-Sou '' was selected for Producer's Spotlight at the Palestine Pavilion, Cannes 2020 Marche du Film. She has a B.A. in Film Studies from UC Berkeley.
- Year2020
- Runtime12 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorReem Jubran
- ScreenwriterReem Jubran
- CastMaz Siam, Beto Ochoa, George Jubran