Eye Contact

• Helsinki-Teheran / Helsinki-Tehran
  Between places. Between people. Helsinki-Tehran is a cinematic study on immigration and memory - on the shared verbal and nonverbal knowledge and emotional understanding which travels with displaced people from one generation to another. Repeated themes in Saiyar´s art work are people’s means or lack of means to operate in their communities and borders of identity, which mirror the traces of other people, cultures and common routines in us.
  Director/author: Azar Saiyar 
  Finland   2009
  Film & Video Video 22 min.
  
   
• Invitation / Invitation
  ›The Iraqi People have no hospitality-facilities for the Iranian caravans of people coming to Karbala to pray and praise the Iman Hussein. One reason is the American army which occupy their country. But still thousands of pilgrims cross the Iranian–Iraqi border and to Karbala by foot.‹ Payam Zeinalabedini The filmmaker makes this journey herself for the first time in memory of her grandmother. The camera is the third eye on this pilgrimage, which creates more than one serious problem for the people, due to the unresolved political situation in Iraq.
  Director/author: Payam Zeinalabedini 
  Iran   2009
  Film & Video Video 30 min.
  
   
• Surreal Random MMS Texts para ed Ina, Agui tan Kaamong ya Makaiiliw ed Sika: Gurgurlis ed Banua / Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures
  Using a Pangasinan-language translation of Filipino-American activist Carlos Bulosan's 1942 poem ›Landscape with Figures‹ as a narration, an expatriate Filipino filmmaker working in the Middle East sends surreal, random, and found digital images of displacement and longing to his loved ones in the Pangasinan province of the northern Philippines.
  Director/author: Christopher Gozum 
  Philippines   2009
  Film & Video Video 15 min.