The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.

Written, Filmed and Edited by Nadia Shihab
Archival Photos by Lahib Jaddo

Featuring Voices of:
Lahib Jaddo, Yanar Mohammed, Parine Jaddo, Uza Ashworth

Music & Field Recordings by Nadia Shihab
Darbuka by Kareem Shihab
Sound Mix by Mark Ashworth
Special Thanks to Anne Walsh

Running time: 8:38
Languages: Iraqi Turkish (Turkman), English

2021
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England

2022
SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles CA
DOXA, Vancouver, Canada
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles CA
Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia PA
Mimesis, Boulder, CO
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Camden International Film Festival, Maine
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
Metropolis Art Cinema, Beirut, Lebanon
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
A New Wave Theory, Minneapolis, MN
Antimatter Media Fest, Victoria, BC
Arab Film Festival, San Francisco/Oakland, CA
MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
Camera Obscura, Petaluma, CA

2023
Revolt Against the Sun, SHASHA movies
AFMI Arab Women in the Arts, New York
Spoken Web Symposium, Edmonton, Canada
What is Asia?, worldwide online
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA