Our Next Program
Member Screening: Sky and Ground
22 Oct 2019 @ 07:00pm
Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing Talya’s Tibbon’s Sky and Ground. The filmmaker will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. The screening will take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.
A ground-level immersion into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, Sky and Ground accompanies the Sheikh Nabi clan, a large, extended Syrian-Kurdish family, as they painstakingly make their way from their home in Aleppo, bombed out by the war, to the Idomeni refugee camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia. Their goal is Berlin, where they will reunite with family members and seek asylum, but first they must make the arduous and dangerous journey through as Europe decides to close its borders to refugees.
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