Children’s Film Festival Seattle: NWFF: Virtual AND In Person

Family Hug (Ages 13+) [Hybrid]

Watch in person: Feb. 4 at 5:30pm

Included: Fraiha Six-year-old Amal attempts to overcome her classroom literacy struggles with the help of her loving mother, Fraiha. Seattle premiere!

(Amal Al-Shammari & Hossein Heydar, Qatar, 2022, 6 min, nonverbal)

Included: Jasmin’s Two Homes: When Jasmin’s parents decide to move their family back to her dad’s home country, Somaliland, she is faced with the biggest change of her life. She has to say goodbye to the familiar playgrounds in the Finnish suburbs, and to her best friend. When she arrives in Somaliland, she’s struck with culture shock: the streets are not paved, and camels roam around freely. But Jasmin starts to appreciate that nobody stares at her like they do in Finland. Maybe having two homes isn’t so bad after all? Pacific Northwest premiere!  (Inka Achte & Hanna Karppinen, Finland, 2022, 13 min, in English, Finnish & Somali with English subtitles)