A Bright Summer Diary
An old family photograph triggers artist Lei Lei's journey into the melancholy of memory and the muddled nature of nostalgia.
27'
USA
IFFR 2020
Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and exodus. This Shia Muslim ethnic minority in today's predominantly Sunni Pakistan has sought refuge in Germany, where the artist is based. She collaborates with Quetta-based photographer Asef, who is working on assembling a book of photographs that offer a glimpse into private moments in Hazara homes: images that reveal personal stories of loss and resilience.
IFFR 2020
- 17'
- United Arab Emirates
- 2019
- Director
- Bani Abidi
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Countries of production
- United Arab Emirates, Germany, Pakistan
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 17'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Bani Abidi
- Production Company
- Sharjah Art Foundation
- Sales
- Bani Abidi
- Cinematography
- Bani Abidi
Also in this combined programme
Look Then Below
It's happening beneath our feet. Ben Rivers' latest film is about a lost civilisation in the hollow earth, basking in a subterranean glow.
22'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
Progressive Touch
Can you make love to an irregular beat? Sex as dance and comedy, in this film about the relationship between sex, choreography and composing music.
12'
Austria
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Bani Abidi
- Premiere
- World premiere (festival)
- Countries of production
- United Arab Emirates, Germany, Pakistan
- Year
- 2019
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 17'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Bani Abidi
- Production Company
- Sharjah Art Foundation
- Sales
- Bani Abidi
- Cinematography
- Bani Abidi
Programme IFFR 2020
Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
The power of short. Twenty-one films from the short film selection compete for one of three equal awards.
Read more about this programme3 Logical Exits
A claustrophobic sociological contemplation of the escape routes open to young Palestinians from their dead-end lives in refugee camps.
15'
Denmark
IFFR 2020
Aggregate States of Matters
Rosa Barba shows the slow disappearance of a glacier and its effect on the Quechuan population in the Andes of Peru.
18'
Peru
IFFR 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
An archive of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, document and narrate their encounter with 'civilised man'.
28'
Brazil
IFFR 2020