The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Rame Ibrahim, MFA. Rame’s graduate thesis is a short film entitled Prisoner.
Rame Ibrahim is a Palestinian Canadian film director. His film work explores his rich background. He engages in topics like refuge, politics, freedom of speech, the Palestinian diaspora, etc. He studied for his B.A. in Istanbul, where he produced, wrote, and directed his first narrative short film, Eid, about his grandmother. His latest work, Ahmed, which talks about the expectations refugees have from governing bodies, got selected for the New York Shorts Film Festival and the Toronto Arab Film Festival. He is currently working on his third short film, Prisoner, about intergenerational trauma which has received the CGS-M SSHRC grant.
Prisoner follows the story of a son, Adam (12 years old), who comes to realize, as he enters adolescence, that the imprisonment of his father, Saeed, is the source not only of tales of adventure, but also of stories of horror and torture. It’s a coming-of-age story that touches upon topics of political imprisonment in the Middle East, PTSD, mental health, the refugee experience, the effects of trauma on immigrant children, and finally, desensitization to violence.
Video: Clip from short film (WIP)
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