Twin Cities Arab Film Festival 2022

Transmissions and Echolocations (Shorts Segment)

Expired October 3, 2022 4:59 AM
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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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How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.


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About the filmmaker


Douwe Dijkstra is a filmmaker and visual artist from the Netherlands born in 1984. He studied Illustration Design at the ArtEZ University of the Arts. His work is a mixture of video, animation and VFX, and can be described as both humorous and socially engaged. His projects range from short films and documentaries to video installations and theater performances.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    29 minutes
  • Language
    Dutch, Somali
  • Country
    Netherlands, Somalia
  • Director
    Douwe Dijkstra
  • Cast
    Abdiwahab Ali, Douwe Dijkstra
  • Editor
    Douwe Dijkstra
  • Sound Design
    Rob Peters
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