Visions

82 mins

Shorts Program: Visions

Embarcadero Center Cinema
October 20, 2015 7:00 pm

SFSU Screening: Visions

Coppola Theater
October 21, 2015 4:30 pm

Description

Our visions program is a collection of AFF short films that re-imagine the narrative form in exciting and innovative ways.

SFSU Screening, October 21st is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) and the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University

In This Program

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Hamy Ramezan, Rungano / Denmark, Finland / 2014 / 13 mins
An Arab woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words.
The Living of the Pigeons

Baha Abu Shanab / Palestine / 2015 / 17 mins
A haunting glimpse of everyday life at a checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Searching for Abbas Kiarestami

Malas Twins / France, Syria / 2015 / 12 mins
A Syrian man carries a large photo of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarestami in the streets of Paris hoping to find him. He wants him to talk to his government about the Syrian revolution. He searches in the Iranian embassy, subways, and coffee shops but receives no answer.
The Wig

Karim Boukhari / Morocco / 2015 / 18 mins
On a random afternoon at a movie theater in Casablanca a young man buys a ticket, enters the cinema, and dresses as a woman. But nothing goes as planned.
Alia

Raghed Charabaty / Canada, Lebanon / 2015 / 5 mins
Haunted by the memory of civil war, an old Lebanese man revisits the last few moments of a fateful bus ride that lead to the untimely death of his beloved.
Deep Sleep

Basma Alsharif / Kuwait, Palestine, USA / 2014 / 12 mins
A transfixing performance film in which artist Basma Alsharif shoots footage in Athens, Malta and the "post-civilization" of the Gaza Strip while under self-hypnosis.
Sleepwalking

Mona Lisa Ali / Canada / 2014 / 4 mins
A CG animated film exploring tactile senses linked to the harsh reality of a place and culture unattainable.