BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:30370@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:IQMF: Special Short Selection DTSTAMP:20261112T004330Z DTSTART:20261206T100000Z DESCRIPTION:Magid / Zafar\n\nDuration: 18’\nDirector: Luís Hindman\nLanguag e: English and Urdu\nSubtitles: Not confirmed\nCountry: United Kingdom\nYe ar: 2025\n\nSynopsis: Set inside a busy British-Pakistani family takeaway\ , the film follows\nMagid and Zafar\, two childhood friends whose reunion brings unresolved feelings\nand secrets to the surface. When Zafar arrives at the restaurant\, Magid attempts\nto hide the nature of their relations hip from his family and colleagues. As\ntensions rise\, the film explores queer identity\, cultural expectations\, secrecy\nand the challenges of li ving between personal desires and close-knit community\nlife.\n\nCoyotes\n \nDuration: 20’\nDirector: Said Zagha\nLanguage: Arabic\, Hebrew and Engli sh\nSubtitles: English and Arabic (depending on screening)\nCountry: Pales tine\, France\, Jordan and United Kingdom\nYear: 2025\n\nSynopsis: A Pales tinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift. While\ntravelling alo ng an isolated road in the West Bank\, she encounters an unexpected\nand d angerous situation that changes her journey forever. The film is a tense\n political thriller exploring fear\, vulnerability and the realities of lif e under\noccupation.\n\nBirthmark\n\nDuration: 20’\nDirector: George Peter Barbari (Georgie Barbari)\nLanguage: Arabic\nSubtitles: English\nCountry: Lebanon\, France and Croatia\nYear: 2026\n\nSynopsis: A woman visits a se x worker in an attempt to discover something about\nthe worker’s world and \, ultimately\, about herself. Behind closed doors\, another\nkind of conf lict unfolds: a struggle over truth\, identity and existence. The\nfilm ex plores intimacy\, self-discovery and the boundaries between personal and\n social realities.\n\nSara & Fatima\n\nDuration: 13’\nDirector: Nada Chedda di\, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Karima Zouhair\nLanguage: Darija (Moroccan Arabic) and French\nSubtitles: Not confirmed\nCountry: Canada\nYear: 2026\ n\nSynopsis: Two young women\, Sara and Fatima\, meet while waiting for a bus in\nMorocco. One wears a veil and the other does not. Initially\, they are drawn to\neach other while also judging one another based on their cu ltural and personal\ndifferences. As they spend time together waiting for a bus that never seems to\narrive\, they gradually reveal their vulnerabil ities and discover unexpected\nsimilarities. The film explores cultural id entity\, prejudice\, solidarity and\nfemale friendship.\n\nBreaking Walls\ n\nDuration: 23’\nDirector: Jan-Dirk Bouw\nLanguage: Dutch\, English and C hinese (Mandarin)\nSubtitles: English\nCountry: Netherlands\, Belgium and Norway\nYear: 2025\n\nSynopsis: The documentary follows Hoi Yi\, a journal ist and activist fighting\nagainst the global rise of surveillance and cen sorship while hiding his queer\nidentity from his family in China. Althoug h he publicly advocates freedom of\nexpression and helps Iranian journalis ts circumvent censorship\, he struggles\nwith his own self-censorship and the pressure of his family’s expectations.\nAfter entering an arranged mar riage to maintain appearances\, Hoi navigates the\ncomplicated relationshi p between his public activism and private life. Through\nanimation and doc umentary storytelling\, the film explores queer identity\,\nfreedom\, fami ly expectations\, cultural repression and the courage to live\nauthentical ly.\n\n\nvr 4 dec 19:00\n[https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_conf igs/webshop/steps/start/show/1325058]LAB\n2Tickets\n[https://tickets.lab11 1.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/webshop/steps/start/show/1325058]za\n5 dec 13:00\n[https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/webshop/steps/ start/show/1325060]LAB\n2Tickets\n[https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/ flow_configs/webshop/steps/start/show/1325060]zo\n6 dec 11:00\n[https://ti ckets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/webshop/steps/start/show/1325066 ]LAB\n4Tickets\n[https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/websh op/steps/start/show/1325066] URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/iqmf-special-short-selection-2 GEO:52.3637259;4.8676321 LOCATION:LAB111 - Arie Biemondstraat 111\, 1054 PD Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:daytime,film,in english,iqmf X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Magid / Zafar

Dura tion: 18’
Director: Luís Hindman
Language: English and Urdu
Su btitles: Not confirmed
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2025

S ynopsis: Set inside a busy British-Pakistani family takeaway, the film fol lows Magid and Zafar, two childhood friends whose reunion brings unresolve d feelings and secrets to the surface. When Zafar arrives at the restauran t, Magid attempts to hide the nature of their relationship from his family and colleagues. As tensions rise, the film explores queer identity, cultu ral expectations, secrecy and the challenges of living between personal de sires and close-knit community life.

Coyotes

< p>Duration: 20’
Director: Said Zagha
Language: Arabic, Hebrew and English
Subtitles: English and Arabic (depending on screening)
Cou ntry: Palestine, France, Jordan and United Kingdom
Year: 2025

S ynopsis: A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift. While travelling along an isolated road in the West Bank, she encounters an une xpected and dangerous situation that changes her journey forever. The film is a tense political thriller exploring fear, vulnerability and the reali ties of life under occupation.

Birthmark

Du ration: 20’
Director: George Peter Barbari (Georgie Barbari)
Langu age: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon, France and Croati a
Year: 2026

Synopsis: A woman visits a sex worker in an attemp t to discover something about the worker’s world and, ultimately, about he rself. Behind closed doors, another kind of conflict unfolds: a struggle o ver truth, identity and existence. The film explores intimacy, self-discov ery and the boundaries between personal and social realities.

Sara & Fatima

Duration: 13’
Director: Nada Ched dadi, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Karima Zouhair
Language: Darija (Moroc can Arabic) and French
Subtitles: Not confirmed
Country: Canada
Year: 2026

Synopsis: Two young women, Sara and Fatima, meet while waiting for a bus in Morocco. One wears a veil and the other does not. In itially, they are drawn to each other while also judging one another based on their cultural and personal differences. As they spend time together w aiting for a bus that never seems to arrive, they gradually reveal their v ulnerabilities and discover unexpected similarities. The film explores cul tural identity, prejudice, solidarity and female friendship.

Breaking Walls

Duration: 23’
Director: Jan-Dirk Bouw
Language: Dutch, English and Chinese (Mandarin)
Subtitles: Englis h
Country: Netherlands, Belgium and Norway
Year: 2025

Synop sis: The documentary follows Hoi Yi, a journalist and activist fighting ag ainst the global rise of surveillance and censorship while hiding his quee r identity from his family in China. Although he publicly advocates freedo m of expression and helps Iranian journalists circumvent censorship, he st ruggles with his own self-censorship and the pressure of his family’s expe ctations. After entering an arranged marriage to maintain appearances, Hoi navigates the complicated relationship between his public activism and pr ivate life. Through animation and documentary storytelling, the film explo res queer identity, freedom, family expectations, cultural repression and the courage to live authentically.


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