Regeneration: Touchline by Mohammed Saffouri, Ambience by Wisam Jafari, Tallahassee by Darine Hotait, and Mariam by Reem Jubran.
Touchline
by Mohammed Saffouri
15 min. | 2021
In Haifa, 1948, Ahmad plays soccer in a local club in his town. He gets an offer to play for the Palestinian National Team after a wonderful performance in a friendly match. On his way back home, Ahmad and his two friends face soldiers blocking their way back and see the people of the city fleeing. Ahmad returns to his home seeing his own family leaving the city to seek a safer place as well. Ahmad leaves the city with his family, leaving his home, friends, and most importantly his dream behind. Finally, Ahmad unites the refugees with a soccer match in the refugee camp.
Ambience
by Wisam Jafari
15 min. | 2019
Two young Palestinians try to record a demo for a Music Competition inside a noisy crowded refugee camp, while failing recording because of the chaos of the place, they discover an authentic way allow them to meet the deadline creatively.
Tallahassee
by Darine Hotait
22 min. | 2021
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.
Mariam
by Reem Jubran
12 min. | 2021
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and Alzheimer's grandfather about his identity on an average night gone terribly wrong.
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