Synopsis: Taiwan, 1960s, a time of political chaos and military surveillance. After a long disappearance, a father is finally reunited with his wife and daughter in their village. But the happy reunion soon gives way to the lingering trauma of political violence: the family watches helplessly as the man they love struggles with paranoia, angry outbursts, and fear they cannot understand. Despite her confusion, his little girl is determined to help him return to the man he was.Through the lens of a seven-year-old girl and her relationship with her father, THE BLACK KITE examines the complexities of suffering and surviving under totalitarianism. Director's Bio: A brief enrollment at Film Department at Columbia University after graduating from National Taiwan University, where Lee got her BA degree in History, she shot THE MENARCHE, and was selected to Hawaii International Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival and Austin Film Festival.

The Black Kite

Through the dynamic of a seven-year-old girl and her father’s relationship, The Black Kite portrays the contradicted, chaos mind of people under totalitarianism.

Synopsis: In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother AL-SIT, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa's future. But can Nafisa choose for herself? Director's Bio: Suzannah Mirghani is a writer, researcher, and independent filmmaker. She is a media studies and museum studies graduate and publishes creative and scholarly work on a variety of social issues. Being of multicultural Sudanese and Russian backgrounds, she is most interested in stories that examine the complexity of identity. Suzannah is the writer, director, and producer of AL-SIT (2020), which has won over fifteen international awards, including the Grand Prix at the 2021 Tampere Film Festival (Academy Award qualifying) and the Canal+ Award at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Film Website: <a href="https://filmfreeway.com/Al-Sit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://filmfreeway.com/Al-Sit</a>

Al-Sit

﻿Synopsis: On the day of her release from a psychiatric facility, Mira returns to her mother’s home in Brooklyn for her grandmother’s birthday, only to discover that her sister has told the family that she has been on a trip to Florida. TALLAHASSEE is the portrayal of a young woman’s re-entry into the world, a meditation on the enormous task of life after grief. Framed in the context of diaspora, TALLAHASSEE grants a glimpse into the struggles of mental illness, an issue often silenced and pathologized in Arab culture. Director's Bio: Darine Hotait is a New-York based American Lebanese writer and film director. Her work focuses on the politics of identity, Arab &amp; African diaspora, and science fiction. She has written and directed a dozen award-winning narrative short films that can be seen on SundanceTV, The New Yorker, AMC Networks, BBC, Forbes, and Outfest. Her work has received the support of The Sundance Institute, Comedy Central, The Independent Film Project, The Jerome Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Darine is the founder of Cinephilia Productions— a film incubator championing African and Arab filmmakers. Film Website: <a href="http://www.darinehotait.com/tallahassee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.darinehotait.com/tallahassee</a>

Tallahassee

Tallahassee grants a glimpse into the struggles of mental illness, an issue often silenced in Arab culture.

Synopsis: Rita (25), has to live her life in a foreign country after she is unable to be with her father’s (Carlos) death. Through a phone call with her brother back in Portugal, she listens to the funeral mass for her father. In her eye full of tragedy she finds a fish wrapped inside a shopping bag. Rita heads to the lake with a dead fish in her arms, but despite her will to save it, the fish doesn't come back to life…

Fish to the Lake

People always see what they want to see, and always think what they imagined.

Synopsis: A couple deals with loss Director's Bio: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon have spent their lives acting, directing and producing film and television.

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Synopsis: On a hot day in the valley, Safa's car battery dies, leaving her stranded in a strip mall parking lot. As she waits for help to arrive, she's forced to confront her new reality. When her mom finally comes to her rescue that night, the two struggle to jump-start a car for the first time. Director's Bio: The Oscar-winning team behind the Netflix short, PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE., Rayka and Sam have also collaborated on various narrative and doc projects including JUST HOLD ON, which won a Grand Jury Award at SXSW and was distributed by Oscilloscope Films in 2020. Their film SHNOOF, which premiered online at Short of the Week, received Staff Pick’s Best of the Month honors from Vimeo and Best of the Year recognition from Booooom. Since PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE., Rayka has directed social impact films for Special Olympics and KitchenAid. Sam’s debut feature screenplay CENTS scored a rare 9 and trended on The Blacklist in 2019. In both documentary and narrative, Rayka and Sam bring a naturalistic approach to their storytelling, always striving for honesty and intimacy on screen. Film Website: <a href="https://www.areyoustilltheremovie.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.areyoustilltheremovie.com/</a>

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