11th Annual Immigration Film Fest

Welcome to the 2024 Immigration Film Fest! The Immigration Film Fest is hosted by KAMA DC, a volunteer-run nonprofit dedicated to providing a platform for immigrants and refugees in the DMV to share their skills and stories. Now in the festival's 11th year, we are bringing you a hybrid film festival with virtual screenings for 29 films via Eventive and four in-person screenings in Washington, DC from October 17-20

The screenings will be hosted at a variety of venues in downtown DC and each screening feature Q&A with film directors or other expert speakers.Welcome to the 2024 Immigration Film Fest, now organized by KAMA DC! This October we are bringing you a hybrid film festival with virtual screenings via Eventive.

Schedule:

Language: Itu Ninu with 22 Words

Join us at Planet Word's Friedman Family Auditorium for two special films focused on language and the power it holds for migrant communities. Opening the event, the short film 22 Words depicts a heart-warming Urdu lesson between father and daughter that reveals how language can connect one to culture. Then we'll enjoy Itu Ninu, an original sci-fi film following two climate refugees in the future who connect with one another over the shared indigenous language that only they can speak. After the films, we'll hear from the director of Itu Ninu, Itandehui Jansen!

Itandehui Jansen was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and studied film directing at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. She participated in different international training programs, such as the BERLINALE TALENTS, The BINGER FILM LAB, and the TORINO FILM LAB. Her films have screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), FICM (Morelia International Film Festival), Washington D.C. Shorts, ZINEBI, the London Short Film Festival, and SLAMDANCE. Her films have received several international awards and she was nominated for the Mexican Film Critics Award Diosa de Plata. Her feature drama film In Times of Rain won the Award for Best Emerging Feature Film at the Oaxaca Film Fest.

Itu Ninu

In a highly controlled smart city in the year 2084, two climate migrants try to connect through old-fashioned letters.

22 Words

A father and a daughter converse about the meaning or words. What starts off like a simple Urdu lesson intended for a 5-year-old reveals something deeper, hinting at themes of cultural loss, immigrant life and the father's longing to belong.

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