Director of Photography
During the last days of summer before college, two Oakland teens (Leila Mottley, Ajai Kasim) explore what it means to be young Black artists in their rapidly gentrifying city. An intimate feeling of eavesdropping permeates this sun-soaked tour of neighborhood sights and sounds, as they both realize they're on the cusp of personal and community-wide change.
Director
After losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured, Syrian teenager Ibraheem Sarhan makes a new life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada despite the heartbreak of leaving his home behind. Narrated through Ibraheem's diary entries, we follow Ibraheem through his first week of high school in Winnipeg. It's a story about loss, resilience, and one young man's identity as he adapts to a new country while his home is at war.
