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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Through 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. Weaving a personal family archive with reenacted dreams and rituals, the film underlines the promise of cinema as a medium for memories even at their most irretrievable.


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About the filmmaker


Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker and film programmer from Doha, Qatar. His short film And Then They Burn the Sea premiered at Locarno in 2021. He produced it under the mentorship of Academy Award-nominated director Rithy Panh and with the support of the Qatari Film Fund. Currently, he is developing his next short film. Majid is also part of the Film Programming team at the Doha Film Institute.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    12 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Qatar
  • Director
    Majid Al-Remaihi
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