Randa Ali
, 2022
, 15 min
Ali, a young Egyptian living in self-exile in Los Angeles is visited by a memory of an old friend. Together they try to make sense of a past haunted by trauma and a present that makes no sense.
Lily Ekimian Ragheb and Ahmed T. Ragheb
, 2021
, 11 min
An Egyptian living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reflects on his new surroundings through a series of images and observations. The resulting montage is a poignant cinematic postcard that explores the contradictory nature of the immigrant experience: at once lonely, frightening, and exhilarating.
Reem Jubran
, 13 min
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and ailing grandfather about his identity.
July 2023
Zayn Alexander, Jenna Mahmoud-Bosco, Shayma Aziz, Darine Hotait, Randa Ali, Reem Jubran, Lily Ekimian Ragheb and Ahmed T. Ragheb
PRAYER OF THE WANDERER is a short film program that explores the complex and multifaceted experiences of Arab American immigrants in their pursuit of identity within the context of living in the United States. By delving into their narratives, this event seeks to shed light on the richness and diversity of Arab American cultural heritage…
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
, 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…
Yto Barrada
, 2011
Barrada digs into her family history and narrates 16 myths based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, illustrated with strangers’ home movies found at flea markets and archival films from the last half-century in Morocco.
Firouzeh Khosrovani
, 2020
, 109 min
My mother married my father ́s photograph in Tehran. He was studying radiology in Switzerland, and for mother to come and live with him, marriage was obligatory. For my mother, with her religious background, living in Europe was a challenge. Sin was everywhere. My father came from a liberal and secular family. He was a…
June 2023
Rijin Sahakian, Bassim Al Shaker, Sajjad Abbas, Ali Eyal, Sarah Munaf
Ahmed Kamal
, 2006
