Here are the AGAPS sponsored films for MESA 2021 along with selected trailers.
This year we were proud to host a special screening and discussion of the award winning film Al Sit.
You can see a recording of the discussionusing this link (Passcode: K5i2nD+8).
Click on the images below to see selected trailers.
Sudan/Qatar 2020; color; Arabic with English subtitles 20 minutes; dir. Suzannah Mirghani
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?
AL-SIT
Saudi Arabia 2019; color; Arabic with English subtitles 16 minutes; dir. Maha Al-Saati
This film is an exploration of the Princess myth imposed on women. Set in a Disneyesque island populated by obedient princesses, unfolds a fairytale gone wrong. Snow White forms a friendship with a talking ram, but fearing that death will keep them apart, she seeks the apple of eternal life to avoid their inevitable separation.
CYCLE OF APPLES
Qatar 2019; color; 17 minutes; Arabic with English subtitles; dir. A.J. Al-Thani
Reem a young Iraqi woman escapes her home in the middle of the night. She lives in Mosul after being forced to marry an ISIS soldier. Reem finds help in a taxi driver named Ahmed to help her escape Mosul and find her family again.
