By Abdimalik Ahmed As we bask in the glow still radiating from our transcendent closing night of Your Hello to My Goodbye, I couldn’t help but nostalgically contrast it with my experience after the closing of The Place I Return To. I checked to see when exactly that was, and when I saw that it … Continue reading On the Two Year Anniversary of “The Place I Return To”
This year I attended the Cannes Film Festival(!!!!!), attended many advance screenings, and saw films in Minneapolis, LA, NYC, Tampa, Cairo, Cannes. This was a real year of surprise and discovery. The things I was familiar with didn’t do a lot for me, so I decided to go blind into a lot of unknowns without even watching the trailer, and those are mostly the things that made it onto these lists. I feel like my top 10/30 really encapsulates me as a person. The lover of spectacle, the hopeless romantic, the laugher, the crier, the existentialist....
It has now been two full weeks since George Floyd was brutally murdered by police just miles from me. A few days ago I heard a character on TV declare quite matter-of-factly that “mothers always know!” It struck me that I was supposed to nod my head and agree that, indeed, mother always knows, but I was left entirely uneasy that I didn’t. For the next day, I was plagued with confusion as to why and just how long I felt that way.
ABDIMALIK AHMED 