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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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.


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About the filmmaker


Self-taught screenwriter and director, Khalil Cherti trained himself by directing institutional films, commercials and trailers. In 2009, he directed and produced his first medium-length film The Great Wall of Qin (selected at the Clermont Film Festival, awarded with the CNC quality award, etc...). In 2011 he directed a web series, Lolicats, which won the prize for the best web series at La Rochelle fiction festival. In 2014, his second medium-length film D'où que vienne la douleur was selected in many festivals including the international festival of Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, where it won a special mention, and many awards elsewhere. His commercials and trailers have also won awards in international festivals such as the PromaxBDA Awards.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    France, Syria
  • Director
    Khalil Cherti
  • Cast
    Reem Ali, Georges Daaboul
  • Editor
    Khalil Cherti, Isabel Lorente
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