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As I Open My Eyes
A film by Leyla Bouzid
Starring Ghalia Benali and Baya Medhaffer
| Farah (Baya Medhaffar) is a young woman at a crossroads. Her medical-school application has just been accepted, and nothing could please her mother, Hayet (Ghalia Benali), more—but Farah’s passion is for music, and her underground band is just beginning to get noticed. Their music blends rock with daring lyrics that have the raw poetry of spoken word. Soon enough, the police are alerted to the band’s subversive performances and begin to harass them, and when Farah is detained and interrogated, she realizes that one of her friends is a snitch. Inspired by director Leyla Bouzid’s personal experiences during Ben Ali’s dictatorship |
Us Kids
A film by Kim A. Snyder
| From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reins and fight for justice at a most critical time in our nation’s history. Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging schools, Us Kids offers unprecedented access to the March For Our Lives movement, following X Gonzalez and other co-founders and survivors over the course of several years. |
What We Left Unfinished
A film by Mariam Ghani
| The story of five unfinished films from the Communist era in Afghanistan, and the people who went to crazy lengths to make them – bringing together newly rediscovered and restored footage with new footage shot in the same locations, and stories from behind the scenes, as told by the directors, actors, and crew who were there. |
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