Twin Cities Arab Film Festival 2022

Transmissions and Echolocations (Shorts Segment)

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7 films in package
Neighbor Abdi
Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker in the Netherlands. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe in a special effects studio.
Mrs El Araby
Mrs El Araby is a short experimental film that explores the restricted space within which Arab women are allowed to exist in western media.
Virtual Voice
Suzi is the voice of her generation—the virtual voice, that is.
T'embrasser sur le miel
Siwam lives somewhere in Syria. Rawad lives somewhere else in Syria. Despite the chaos, they decide to communicate by sending each other videos. By witnessing the home movies they made for each other, we discover their connection and the world they create.
The Eyes That Never See
Ram(z)I is a lonely, working-class man who died twice.
And Then They Burn the Sea
And Then They Burn the Sea is an elegiac contemplation on familial memory and loss. Filmmaker Majid Al-Remaihi ruminates on the experience of witnessing his mother’s gradual and terminal memory loss over the course of many years.
Echolocation
The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to ten, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.
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This is a satirical review of our times. Suzi doll is an ego-warrior. My online avatar, marching to the algorithms of social media. She is lit by temporary outrage. A trending indignation. A passion that is fashion. A politics of the popular. Her activism is abstract. Her help is hypothetical. We know many girls like Suzi, and many times we are her: vacuous virtual voices, echoing injustices.


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About the filmmaker


Suzannah Mirghani is a writer, researcher, and independent filmmaker. She is a media studies and museum studies graduate. Mixed-race Sudanese and Russian, she is interested in stories about the complexity of identity. Suzannah is the writer, director, and producer of Al-Sit (2020, Sudan/Qatar), which won the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and five Academy Award qualifying prizes: Best of Fest at LA Shorts; Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival; Best Short Film at BronzeLens; Best Narrative Short at New Orleans Film\ Festival; and Grand Jury Prize for Short Live Action Short at AFI Fest. Her latest short is the experimental documentary/social media satire Virtual Voice (2021), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Suzannah is working on her first feature Cotton Queen, a magical realist tale set in the cotton fields of Sudan.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Sudan, Qatar
  • Director
    Suzannah Mirghani
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