Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian/Egyptian/British filmmaker who has been producing work around themes of conflict, human rights, and colonialism since 1998. His latest documentary, TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR, premiered at the Berlinale 2015 where it won the Audience Choice Panorama award and the Amnesty Human Rights Award. His films focus on exile and the lingering trauma of conflict, and he tells intimate, personal stories with an emphasis on humanism and its mirror image: surrealism. STRANGE CITIES ARE FAMILIAR is his second fiction film.
