Q&A with Suzannah Mirghani, Shaima Al Tamimi & Sarah Alhashimi on OCT 13, 7PM

Will My Parents Come To See Me, 2022
Director : Mo Harawe
Language : Somali
Subtitle : English
An experienced Somali prison officer accompanies a young inmate once again through the procedures of the Somali justice system.
This screening is made possible with the support of the Goethe Institut.

The Bath, 2020
Director: Anissa Daoud
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
Imed, a young father, finding himself alone for a few days with his five year old son due to his wife’s business trip, will have to confront his deepest fear.

Don’t Get Too Comfortable, 2021
Director : Shaima Al Tamimi
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
‘‘Don’t Get Too Comfortable’ is a heartfelt introspective letter to the director’s deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora. The film fuses archival photographs, sourced footage, parallax animation, abstract videos to create an audio visual body of work that calls attention to the collective feeling of statelessness and sense of being felt by migrants.

And Then They Burn The Sea, 2021
Director : Majid Al-Remaihi
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
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. Weaving a personal family archive, reenacted dreams and rituals, the film underlines the promise of cinema as a medium for memories even at their most irretrievable.

Al-Sit, 2020
Director : Suzannah Mirghani
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
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?

Why Is My Grandfathers Bed In Our Living Room?, 2021
Director : Sarah Alhashimi
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
The film tells the story of an Emirati family that lost their ancestral house to community development plans aimed at modernizing the city. As they recall the sudden loss of the family house, it is apparent that a century old wooden bed, which is the only tangible memory that remains, is a poignant feature of their story. The attachment of both the house and the bed are intertwined together in the bittersweet memories of the family members.