Yaffa

Canada | 2019 | 7 min | Experimental "Yaffa" is a short experimental film in which space and time become meshed together to form the fragments we create our stories from. In those pieces of images, memories arise and stories retell themselves. It is through our mutual time, words, explorations and spaces that I realized my grandfather gifted me a home. A film by Nada El-Omari Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin based in Montreal, Quebec. Her practice and research interests centre on the intergenerational transmissions of memories, displacement, and the stories of belonging and identity which she explores through a poetic, hybrid lens. Focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. Her films have been shown at several festivals, on Shasha and Tënk, and in various galleries. Her work has also been published in Montreal Serai, qumra journal and Tantôt magazine. Her latest digital project was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with Sonya Mwambu. Its latest iteration is a digital installation presented in gallery, in the form of a two-player interactive experience. El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University.