Mon December 6, 2021 7:30 PM FAYA DAYI Free Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre | Q&A following with filmmaker Jessica Beshir, moderated by Carlos Aguilar This is a Free Event. RSVP does not guarantee admission. Attendees with RSVPs will be admitted on a first come, first served basis until the theatre reaches capacity This is a vaccinated-only screening RSVP Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife—the film she returned to make about the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant) is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather, she has constructed something dreamlike: a film that uses light, texture, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films