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your land cries for you
Niya Ahmed Abdullahi (Toronto, ON) YOUTH
Canadian Premiere
Duration: 7:45
Lost in a trance between conversations of the past, old worlds, and alternative realities. Marium is called for prayer during this journey home. Alas she tries, to find, her place.
Director, Writer, Producer: Niya Ahmed Abdullahi
Editor, Sound Design: Ella Saini
Director of Photography: Rividu Mendis
First AC: Isaac Tang
Colourist: Tarneem Allati
Starring: Marium Zakaria, Zeynab Neguse
Landscapes: Love Letters to Willow
Shay Erlich (Toronto, ON) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere
Duration: 8:04
A creative reimagining of the movement potential of Downsview Park in Toronto, through Shay Erlich’s provocative and revelatory contemporary dance. Landscapes: Love Letters to Willow celebrates the disability joy of being visible as a non-binary wheelchair user in a world where disability itself is often rendered invisible.
Co-Director, Dancer: Shay Erlich
Co-Director: Simeon Taole
Executive Producer: Cecilia Garcia
Producer: Danielle Ungara
Dramaturg: Zita Nyarady
Sound Design & Composition: Charlie Petch
FORM is based in so-called Vancouver, in what is colonially known as Canada, on the unceded and stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. FORM continues to reflect on and bring attention to connection to bodies, land and movement through filmmaking, documentation and storytelling. We are grateful to share and witness these stories together while inspiring movement towards positive change, wherever you may be.