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

Festival selections & screenings:

• Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival & Contemporary video Art Presented by 12 Gates Arts

  (Official Selection) (USA)

• Fronteras New Mexico Film Festival

  (Official Selection) (USA)

• Bridge of Peace Film Festival

  (Official Selection) (FRANCE)

• Boston Global Youth Philanthropy Humanitarian

  (Award for Experimental Shorts) (USA)

• South Sound Film Festival & North West Film Forum

  (Official Selection) (USA)

• Art film Spirit Film Festival - Toronto Film Magazine

  ( Winner for Best Experimental ) (CANADA)