Amani Ibrahim

My Favourite Fabric (2018)

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gaya Jiji
CAST:  Metin Akdülger  •  Manal Issa  •  Ula Tabari  •  Gaya Jiji

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gaya Jiji
CAST:  Metin Akdülger  •  Manal Issa  •  Ula Tabari  •  Gaya Jiji

Concrete Valley (2022)

This sensitive and Bressonian sophomore feature from Antoine Bourges (Fail to Appear) is a complex portrait of care set in an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine Bourges
CAST:  Hussam Douhna  •  Amani Ibrahim  •  Abdullah Nadaf  •  Lynn Nanume

This sensitive and Bressonian sophomore feature from Antoine Bourges (Fail to Appear) is a complex portrait of care set in an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antoine Bourges
CAST:  Hussam Douhna  •  Amani Ibrahim  •  Abdullah Nadaf  •  Lynn Nanume