Between Places/Aliens: We've
Come For You Children
JSCinema
June 8
8pm
Between Places: Set in scenic San Francisco in the summer
of 2001,Director Amir Jaffer creates an absorbing tale about love, deception,
immigration, friendship, and homosexuality, underlying the pursuit of the
"American Dream.
Unsure about his true sexual identity, Nagib (IssacBenjamin) arrives in SF
from Cairo, Egypt on an H-1Visa. He befriends his beautiful co-worker Aisha
(Silvia Sweidan) and simultaneously his flirtatioushandsome neighbor Jeff
(Jacob Bokulich).
A love triangle develops and Nagib is caught between Aisha and Jeff-between
the choice of being true to his desires and sexuality and yielding to social
expectations, as he tries to survive in the US post 9/11.
A trailer of Between Places is their website
: go to Media, then click on MEDIA, that will take you to Between Places,
then you can watch the trailer.
Aliens: We've Come for Your Children. "Aliens"
is an experimental documentary exploring the lives of lesbians of color and
immigrant lesbians living in Berlin Germany. The video was conceived, written
and made by the Berlin Film group and tells the stories and gives a look into
the lives of lesbians of color and immigrant lesbians dealing with multli-
discrimination from institutions, white lesbians, family and society at large.
There are no victims here because the subjects of the video are also the filmmakers.
Using vivid images and music together with words, sometimes instead of words
this video tells a powerful story of community and what community could be.
This video was produced as a group project and funded by the European Union.
Directed by Crystal Mason and the Berlin Film Group (2004)
