I Never Promised You a Jasmine Garden
Teyama Alkamli
Fiction : 20' / Friendship, Lesbian

Tara, a queer Palestinian young woman, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call with her best friend Sarab, with whom she is in love.

 

* Part of the program “No Pride in Genocide (Queer Cinema for Palestine)”

QL - Queer Resistance
https://www.queercinemaforpalestine.org

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Year: 2023

Country: Canada

Language: arabic, english

Subtitles: english

With: Tara Hakim, Sandy El-Bitar, Hsain Al-Shihabi

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Teyama Alkamli

Syria / Canada


Teyama Alkamli is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian writer, director, and producer living in Toronto. She is an alumna of DocNomads, the European Mobile Film School, Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Lab, the Canadian Film Centre's Director Lab, and a current TIFF Talent Accelerator participant. Her films have screened at international film festivals such as Doclisboa, TIFF and Berlinale.


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