Ten-year-old Amra sits in the back seat of her mother’s car on the drive from collecting her aunt Hawra from the airport. As she dozes in and out of sleep, she eavesdrops on the women's conversation, learning intimate details of her aunt's troubling marriage. During a pause on their journey, she discovers tragic news relating to one of the adults and must choose whether to be the bearer of the tragedy.
DIRECTOR
Indian-Pakistani Hong-Konger FATEMA ABDOOLCARIM makes films, food, and writes. With an education in photography she taught herself filmmaking using her DSLR camera and voice. Her directorial debut HEIDI (2016, short documentary-essay) premiered at Locarno, and screened at Sundance (HK). Her filmmaking journey continued as collaborator on two feature-documentaries with Juan Palacios. Their most recent, MESETA (2019), won awards at CPH:DOX, L'Alternativa, MajorDocs. Fatema’s debut narrative-short, SWEET LIME, premiered at ZINEBI'65 Bilbao (2023), and received Special Mention at Osaka Asian Film Festival (2024). She was invited to be a jury member for the New Visions Competition at CPH:DOX 2024. In 2021 Fatema received her PhD in Creative Writing from University of Manchester. Her research reimagines visual representations of Muslim women.