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URL:https://saifff.org/events/short-films-block-3-qa-with-filmmakers-2025/
SUMMARY:International Short Films #3 + Q&A (Theatre#1)
DESCRIPTION:A Pinch of Salt (Bengali w/ English subtitles\, 15 min): A poet
 ’s loving meals trigger his wife’s buried trauma\, leading to a revela
 tion that tests their bond and love.\n\nParamita (English\, 24 min): A poe
 tic meditation on identity\, Paramita follows Prajna Paramita Choudhury’
 s 25-year journey of coming out to her traditional Bangladeshi mother\, we
 aving memoir\, prayer\, and Buddhist introspection.\n\nElijah (Samoan w/ E
 nglish subtitles\, 19 min): A Bengali Muslim taxi driver struggles with th
 e fading American Dream while facing his child’s fight for gender identi
 ty\, forcing him to reconsider his beliefs before love slips away.\n\nAfte
 rshock of a Trauma (English\, 20 min): Afghan scholar Zohal documents disp
 laced students in the U.S. while grappling with her own trauma after the T
 aliban’s takeover of her homeland.\n\nYou Are Early (English\, 13 min): 
 A routine homecoming spirals into a psychological standoff\, where shiftin
 g power dynamics and dark humor blur predator and prey.
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