This examines the human condition through the lens of war, suffering, and death in the Middle East. Inspired by my dreams and personal experiences as a Syrian refugee. The film raises existential questions about life, death, and the search for meaning.
A woman offers a lock of hair to her magical puppet theatre. She turns the crank handle, and it gives her a gift, the artifact absorbs her into a performance of puppets and insects where her presence will illuminate life.
Follow Arama, guided by a mystical pomegranate tree, meeting a mysterious man. Along the way, Arama faces parts of himself, slowly putting together the puzzle of his identity. Before he can put everything together, will he manage to keep himself in one piece?
A silent, sandy impression of a secret affair between two Catholic priests. Their affection blooms between one bed of strawberries and another, in a garden next to an Italian rectory.
If traditionally the animator is a master illusionist, conjuring motion through static mediums, what does this process look like when they are given a machine of infinite images? This journey is fueled by the conflicting nature of AI technology.
Stark conformity dominates the residents of a large manor house. Identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything changes when one woman gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
This is a world where men are fish, and women are shrimp. The Xẩm, Chèo-singing-influenced score prompts a conversation about the duality of identities: "Which body of water carries that which aren’t fish or shrimp?". A story about a species that is not fish or shrimp.
