Fikri and Ezzah return in the 75th episode of Thoughts on Films to talk about the SWANA Film Festival! Focusing on Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) films, it was curated by Christina Hajjar and hosted by the School of Art, University of Manitoba in February 2021. In addition to a poetry reading by Hala Alyan, Fikri and Ezzah take in two films from the event’s second week, Suha Araj’s ‘Rosa’ and ‘Though I Am Silent, I Shake’ by Sophie Sabet.
- Hala was reading her own poem, ‘Sleep Study Number 3’, published in the Fall 2020 edition of Adi Magazine
- The ICD code for COVID-19 is Z20.822
- Suha was interviewed by both Film Fest Magazine and Moveable Fest
- You can watch ‘Though I Am Silent, I Shake’ here
- Intermissions: Rosa’s Song by Doug Judy, ‘Rosa’ by Suha Araj and ‘Though I Am Silent, I Shake’ by Sophie Sabet
- Theme Song: Airplane Mode by Josh Woodward
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