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Utah Film Center presents: Midnight Traveler

2019-04-23 19:00:00 2019-04-23 21:00:00 America/Denver Utah Film Center presents: Midnight Traveler Film Screening with the Utah Film Center Main Library - Auditorium

Tuesday, April 23
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Add to Calendar 2019-04-23 19:00:00 2019-04-23 21:00:00 America/Denver Utah Film Center presents: Midnight Traveler Film Screening with the Utah Film Center Main Library - Auditorium

Main Library

Auditorium

Film Screening with the Utah Film Center

Midnight Traveler
Directed by Hassan Fazili
87 min | 2019 | Afghanistan | Not Rated
Presented in Dari, Arabic, English, Turkish, & Bulgarian with English subtitles.

In 2015, after Hassan Fazili’s documentary Peace aired on Afghan national television, the Taliban assassinated the film’s main subject and put a price on Hassan’s head. Hassan looked at his wife and his daughters, and he knew they had to flee their home. Over the course of their multi-year saga in search of safety, the family grasped onto the only means they had to assert control over their situation: their camera phones.

Hassan and his wife Fatima are both filmmakers, and they are educating their daughters and encouraging them to be artists. The whole family shot this autobiographical film, which follows them from when they sought and were rejected for refugee protection through their journey along the notorious Balkan smuggling route. As they experienced increasingly degrading circumstances, the family latched on to filmmaking as a way to not just survive, but retain their humanity.

Midnight Traveler is a gripping vérité story made by a family on the run. Their unique access and artistic vision provide an intimate portrait of a loving family and the myriad fellow travelers they meet on their odyssey.

Winner: Panorama Award–2019 Berlin Film Festival, No Borders Award–2019 Sundance Film Festival

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Performances & Presentations | Movies |

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Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.

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