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2021 Festival Shorts

Shorts Programme 2
Starts: May 27
Time: 6pm Eastern Time
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Ain't No Time For Women
Country: Canada 
Director: Sarra El Abed

Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.

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Pacific 
Country: Belgium, Lebanon
Director: Angie Obeid
Length: 23 mins
Synopsis: Whenever I walk through the dark reddish hallways to reach my apartment, whenever I would look out of my windows and dive into that expended view of the city of Brussels, unusual feelings would emerge. Until the day I read an article about my building PACIFIC, entitled "the suicide tower”.

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Storm Child 
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Country: Canada
Director: Ines Guennaoui
Length: 12 mins
Synopsis: 
Storm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family are Algerian refugees who just arrived in Québec during the infamous 1998 ice storm.

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One Of Us Left The Photo
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Country
: Syria
Director: Malas Twins
Length: 16 mins
Synopsis: A Syrian refugee lives in France with his French woman. His twin brother, pro the Syrian regime, arrives unexpectedly from Syria and lives with them in the same house.

4th annual Toronto Arab Film Festival - june 2023


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  • HOME
  • NEWS//أخبار
  • 2021 FUNDRAISER
  • Festival//مهرجان
    • Call for Submissions 2022-2023
    • Festival 2022 >
      • Tickets
      • 2022 Programme >
        • 2022 Film Programme
        • Opening Day 2022
        • TAF 2022 Panels >
          • Filmmaking amid Lebanon’s Collapse
          • The Language of Belonging
          • Canadian Filmmakers Roundtable
        • Closing Night Party 2022
      • Awards 2022
      • Call for Submissions
    • Previous Editions >
      • 2021 >
        • Festival Programme >
          • Feature: Abou Leila
          • Feature: Unknown Saint
          • Feature: Sugar Cage
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 1
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 2
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 3
          • TAFF Shorts Programme 4
          • Shorts Programme Collection (Available Globally)
          • Speculative Fiction Programme Collection (Available Globally)
          • TAF Panels 2021
          • TAF Workshops 2021
        • Festival News
        • Awards 2021
      • 2020 >
        • Feature: Talking About Trees + Panel
        • TAFF Shorts Programme 1
        • TAFF Shorts Programme 2 + Panel
        • TAFF Shorts Programme 3
        • Awards 2020
  • CINEMA NIGHTS//ليالي السينما
  • NETWORK//شبكة
    • Diary Films
    • Producer Accelerator
    • Call for Commissions
    • Film Lab
    • TAF Salon
    • Panels
    • Resources
  • ABOUT//عنا
    • Contact//تواصل
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