A collection of fictional and true stories of Palestinians and Arabs claiming their identities and destinies in defiance of societal norms and the expected.
Co-Presented by
On International Dawn Chorus Day (May 3, 2020), birds from six continents join a zoom call. They gossip about storms and cats and wires and dates. They talk about Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash, known for his satiric anti-dictator music videos, who died the day before in Cairo's notorious Tora prison. They wonder about Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi, famously incarcerated for flying a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert, now living as a refugee in Toronto. They don't realize that a month later, unable to bear the pain of her prison trauma, Sarah will take her own life.
Past Festivals
Berlinale
- YearShort Experimental Documentary 2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorJohn Greyson
- CastShady Habash, Sarah Hegazi
A collection of fictional and true stories of Palestinians and Arabs claiming their identities and destinies in defiance of societal norms and the expected.
Co-Presented by
On International Dawn Chorus Day (May 3, 2020), birds from six continents join a zoom call. They gossip about storms and cats and wires and dates. They talk about Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash, known for his satiric anti-dictator music videos, who died the day before in Cairo's notorious Tora prison. They wonder about Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi, famously incarcerated for flying a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert, now living as a refugee in Toronto. They don't realize that a month later, unable to bear the pain of her prison trauma, Sarah will take her own life.
Past Festivals
Berlinale
- YearShort Experimental Documentary 2021
- Runtime15 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorJohn Greyson
- CastShady Habash, Sarah Hegazi