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Shorts and Suspense

This probably comes too late for anyone planning out their Saturday at AFF, but I thought it was worth chipping in a word for the Atlantic Shorts 1 program, on at 2PM at Park Lane today. Out of Trip, Being Parkour, The Chewing Gum Man, GAWAB and Winter Wave Riders, I’m most interested in the last two (although the fun part about these things is that the films you have no expectations about often end up being the most enjoyable). Why GAWAB and Winter Wave Riders? In the first case, I’m interested to see if Tarek Abouamin has made any

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Tarek Abouamin’s past present

If viewers feel there’s a particular freshness to Tarek Abouamin’s short film Gawab, it’ll partly owe to the fact that the documentary is fresh in a literal sense. A couple of weeks before its April 14th screening as part of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, its creator says he’s still “cutting like mad.” But a […]

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