Description
“Bezuna” explores the complexities of fleeing a war-zone through the analysis of peripheral details. Through interweaving different narratives, the film presents the raw and broken feelings of a child and a cat whose lives will never be the same.
About the director:
Saif Alsaegh
Filmmaker from Baghdad, he now lives and works in USA. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals and venues including Cinémadu Réel, Kurzfilm Hamburg, Kassel Dokfest, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Gene Siskel Film Center. He received his MFA in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Alsaegh is lecturer of film at California State University – Fullerton.