It's Complicated

This shorts program includes non-fiction films exploring the relationship between the MENA/SWANA community and their homelands. Affected by exile, genocide, censorship, and government neglect, each subject voices their complex bond with home. MENA staff says these stories are nostalgic and full of wisdom, as many feature the experience of community elders.

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Runtime: 
84
 mins
Redacted Dreams
Fariba Farjam
Canada
Iran
2024
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36
mins
Language: 
Farsi
A prominent Iranian author oppressed by censorship immigrates to Canada in search of creative freedom only to face new struggles.
Like a Spiral
Lamia Chraibi
Canada
2024
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28
mins
Language: 
Arabic, English, French
Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system.
Is It War?
Timeea Mohamed Ahmed
Sudan
2025
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6
mins
Language: 
Arabic
When Jafar is detached from his soul in a surreal journey through a forest, he must mentally escape the brutal truths of the conflict in Sudan and the horrors of war and displacement.
Fragmented
Balolas Carvalho
Tanya Marar
Palestine
United Kingdom
Portugal
2025
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7
mins
Language: 
English
After being forced to flee Gaza, former political prisoner and pioneering journalist Qassem grapples with exile, torn between survival and the life he left behind.
already dead
Ghada Sayegh
Lebanon
2024
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7
mins
Language: 
English, French
In the aftermath of Beirut’s port explosion, words from the poetry collection The End of the World Has Already Occurred resurface in the ruins of a building.
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