Iram Haq • 2017 • Norway • Nisha is sent to live in a small village 200 miles from Islamabad.
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives in Oslo. At home, she adheres to the conservative values of her Pakistani family; with her friends, Nisha is an average Norwegian teenager. When Nisha's father finds her alone with a boy one night, she is sent to live with her extended family in a small village, 200 miles from Islamabad.
A dynamic portrait of a young woman's journey to reconcile her dueling identities, What Will People Say navigates themes of heritage, family, honor, freedom, and gender expectations as mediated through vastly different cultural vantage points. Based on her own life experience, Iram Haq's second feature film premiered at AFI Fest, where it won the Audience Award, and is a New York Times Critics' Pick.
Annemarie Jacir • 2012 • Palestine-Jordan
Annemarie Jacir’s second film observes the effects of the Six Day War on a young boy who has been displaced to a Jordanian refugee camp.
Donka and her husband Milan live in a medieval village, having been married for five years. Despite their overwhelming wish to conceive, they have not been able to. In a moment of desperation, they turn to an old woman who will help them bear many children, but only if she gives them their firs...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2014
Cappadocia, present day. Aydin, a retired actor, runs a small hotel, where he lives with beautiful young wife Nihal and his recently divorced sister. Growingly restless in this provincial region, Nihal busies herself with small philanthropic projects; Aydin, m...
