July 2023
Nadia Shihab, Yto Barrada, Firouzeh Khosrovani
FAMILY PORTRAIT presents a compelling program of personal works by filmmakers who courageously turn the lens on their own families, revealing the resulting fractures that shape the fabric of their personal identities. Through these films, the filmmakers embark on a journey of excavation, unearthing their family histories and sharing intimate narratives that illuminate the interplay…
Nadia Shihab
, 2021
, 8 min
Echolocation is a film of voices distant and nearby: the rain in Oakland, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad, my aunts’ voices in What’s App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio. As fragments resonate and accumulate, spaces of loss are subsumed…
April 2023
Jaddoland & Talkback with filmmaker Nadia Shihab Online Screening: April 27-30 …
