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2021 Festival Shorts

Shorts Programme 3
Starts: May 27
Time: 6pm Eastern Time

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A still from Al-Sit

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Al-Sit
Country: Sudan, Qatar 
Director: Suzannah Mirghani
Length: 20 mins
Synopsis: In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. But can Nafisa choose for herself?

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A still from Aziza
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Aziza 
Country: Syria, Lebanon
Director: Soudade Kaadan
Length: 13 mins
Synopsis: Ayman, Syrian refugee in Lebanon, teaching his wife how to drive his car, the only thing left for him from his country. The lesson takes a wrong turn into madness and nostalgia.

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A still from The Girls Who Burnt The Night
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The Girls Who Burnt The Night
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Country: Saudi Arabia
Director: Sara Mesfer
​Length: 24 mins
Synopsis: In an engagement night, a denied request pushes two sisters to their edge. Salsabel, a 13 years old Saudi girl who fights to go to the grocery shop in a city where it’s socially unacceptable experiences hardship in her relationship with her older sister Wasan who the fear of the night’s darkness and refuses to go. Later that day, the two sisters find a way to their desires by burning the night.

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A still from Nour
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Nour
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Country
: Tunisia
Director: Rim Nakhli
Length: 15 mins
Synopsis: Nour and Adem set off to look for their father, whom they haven’t seen for a long time. The two of them cross the city to the rendez-vous, but their father fails to show up.

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
  • SHOP