Directed by
Rafe Scobey-Thal, Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din
Country of Origin
United States
Runtime
11:56
Category
Short Film
Fatima is a young Syrian woman who has never seen the ocean yet speaks to the sea every day. She’s remained confined to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan for most of her life. Her imagination and storytelling with the sea are her only means of escape and freedom. What happens once she is confronted with a moment of freedom, and meets the sea in real life? We follow Fatima as she travels to a place she has never been and meets the ocean for the first time.
Director – Rafe Scobey-Thal, Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din
Rafe Scobey-Thal is an Editor and Director living in New York City who believes that stories, like people have the power to change conversations, cultures and the world. He’s had the privilege of working with musical artists, dancers, activists and brands pushing the boundaries of which stories are told and how they are made. By making imaginative, bold and uncompromising work he believes that art can be a productive disruptor in a world desperate for change.
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din is an artist, storytelling activist, and survivor of war. He has traveled to more than 20 countries innovating storytelling tools for marginalized and underrepresented communities to reclaim creative practices in their daily lives so that they can advance their own health and human rights. For Mohsin, storytelling is an act of resistance to inequality, injustice, and social fragmentation.