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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Ram(z)I is a lonely, working-class man who died twice. Ram(z)I was renamed as soon as his first body died to die again in Jerusalem, buried under a dusty ground while digging for artifacts of a 6000 year-old ancient city. This film explores the obsession of a settler state that continuously excavates to find artifacts to trace history and invent a new one.



About the filmmaker


Dina Mimi (born 1994, Palestine), is an artist who lives and works between Jerusalem and Amsterdam. Her practice encompasses video, sound, performance, and text, and examines the body/space in Palestine. Her current research is concerned with death in the public sphere, as well as notions of visibility and invisibility between archaeology and the object, and the museum and death. Dina obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2016, and her MFA degree in Art in the Public Sphere from ECAV-École Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Switzerland in 2018. She is currently a resident of De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    12 minutes
  • Language
    Korean, Arabic
  • Country
    Palestine
  • Director
    Dina Mimi
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