AMATILLA

Experimental

Short - 2025 - Festival Run

(Writer/Director/Editor)

Three years have passed since Amatilla's death, yet her presence lingers in fragments of memory and silence. A yemeni grandson journals, not to resolve grief, but to inhabit it, to write as though each line from the past and present might return buried feelings. Amatilla unfolds as a quiet dialogue across absence, where the act of remembering becomes love and connection with the self again. Directed by Adham Garman, the experimental film carries the intimacy of a diary and the distance of exile, a meditation on loss, migration, and the traces of love and hope that remain after loss.

Sarah Mazer from letterbox - “A lingering experimental Short, A homage to Chantal Ackerman’s: News from home”

7', Experimental. 16mm
Locations: San Diego (United States), Sana’a (Yemen)
Language: Arabic

Festivals

• Contemporary video Art Presented by 12 Gates Arts and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (Official Selection)

• Fronteras New Mexico Micro Film Festival (Official Selection)