2024 Iris Prize

I Never Promised You A Jasmine Garden

Tara, a queer Palestinian woman in her late 20s, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call with her best friend Sarab.

DIRECTOR:

Teyama Alkamli

PRODUCER:

Teyama Alkamli, Co-Producer Luke Gallagher

WRITER:

Teyama Alkamli

RELEASE YEAR:

2024

Canada, 20 mins

Mae Tara, menyw queer Palesteinaidd yn ei 20au hwyr, yn ceisio atal ei chynnwrf emosiynol mewnol yn ystod galwad ffôn gyda’i ffrind gorau Sarab.

Born in Aleppo and raised in Dubai, Teyama currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Her visually tender and deeply human work deals predominantly with issues of identity, sexuality, displacement and migration. She is an alumna of DocNomads, the European Mobile Film School, Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Lab, TIFF Writers’ Studio, and the Canadian Film Centre’s Director Lab.

Wedi’i geni yn Aleppo a’i magu yn Dubai, mae Teyama yn byw ar hyn o bryd yn Toronto, Canada. Mae ei gwaith gweledol tyner a hynod ddynol yn ymdrin yn bennaf â materion hunaniaeth, rhywioldeb, dadleoli a mudo. Mae hi’n alumna o DocNomads, European Mobile Film School, Hot Docs Emerging Filmmaker Lab, TIFF Writers’ Studio, a Canadian Film Centre’s Director Lab.

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