Shorts Program
Shorts Program
What Remains, What Is Carried
What Remains, What Is Carried
What Remains, What Is Carried
February 17, 2026
7:00 P.M
February 17, 2026
7:00 P.M
Tan/ Vatan
Homa Sarabi, United States 2024, 8 mins. Experimental, No Dialogue
(Taazrit) Taɛezrit
Arinas Kaouther Dernouni, Algeria 2024, 34 mins. Documentary, Arabic and French with English subtitles
Oracle
Leena Aboutaleb, Greece, Egypt, Palestine 2025, 9 mins. Experimental, English with English subtitles
(The Wall) السور
Alaa Abuzaineh, Palestine 2024, 7 mins. Fiction, Arabic with English subtitles
(Against Forgetting) Dijî Jibîrkirinê
Azad Azizyan, Kurdistan & United States 2024, 22 mins. Documentary, Kurdish with English subtitles
(The Scent of Felicity) ريحة الحنة
Alaa Nasser, Egypt 2025, 7 mins. Documentary, Arabic with English subtitles
Tan/ Vatan
Homa Sarabi, United States 2024, 8 mins. Experimental, No Dialogue
(Taazrit) Taɛezrit
Arinas Kaouther Dernouni, Algeria 2024, 34 mins. Documentary, Arabic and French with English subtitles
Oracle
Leena Aboutaleb, Greece, Egypt, Palestine 2025, 9 mins. Experimental, English with English subtitles
(The Wall) السور
Alaa Abuzaineh, Palestine 2024, 7 mins. Fiction, Arabic with English subtitles
(Against Forgetting) Dijî Jibîrkirinê
Azad Azizyan, Kurdistan & United States 2024, 22 mins. Documentary, Kurdish with English subtitles
(The Scent of Felicity) ريحة الحنة
Alaa Nasser, Egypt 2025, 7 mins. Documentary, Arabic with English subtitles
With shorts from across the SWANA region, this program brings together films that engage with cultural heritage through concrete practices: farming and land relations, wedding rituals, oral storytelling, poetry, analog filmmaking, and everyday acts of care and survival. Moving between documentary, fiction, and experimental forms, the works show how culture is carried through bodies, materials, and landscapes, and how it persists under political pressure, displacement, and historical rupture.
With shorts from across the SWANA region, this program brings together films that engage with cultural heritage through concrete practices: farming and land relations, wedding rituals, oral storytelling, poetry, analog filmmaking, and everyday acts of care and survival. Moving between documentary, fiction, and experimental forms, the works show how culture is carried through bodies, materials, and landscapes, and how it persists under political pressure, displacement, and historical rupture.
