Yasmeen's Element

Synopsis

Yasmeen is eager to learn. Inside the school, her hopes and ambitions expand, even as outside, opportunity begins to shrink. On this particular day, these two worlds collide. Her Professor gets pulled out of the classroom by an unknown military force, and briefly returns to give them their homework, each to give a presentation on a unique element from the periodic table. Once arriving home, Yasmeen realizes she's lost her element. A day full of adventures and obstacles unfold as she urgently tries to track down her Professor's house. Yasmeen is helped and sometimes hindered by those she encounters – a parable for what women’s education can be in an unstable place.

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About the director(s):
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani-American writer-director, editor, and composer from Little Rock, Arkansas. Filmmaker Magazine listed him among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2016. His film "Dayveon" premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, was an Official Selection of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, and went on to get two Film Independent Spirit Award nominations in 2018, including in the coveted Someone to Watch category. Abbasi’s upcoming projects include "The Quench" (Co-writer/Director), which is set up at BRON Studios. Prior to narrative films, Abbasi had worked in documentary for several years, traveling the world and discovering undocumented stories. In 2011, while working with the Renaud Brothers, Abbasi traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake for The New York Times for a documentary piece, which went on to win the prestigious duPont Award. Abbasi most recently directed the documentary short film, "Udaan" ("Soar"), for HINDSIGHT 2020 via Firelight Media, which premiered at AFI Docs and resides at PBS. Abbasi has most recently spoken at the roundtable seminar at 2019 Cannes Film Festival and also guest lectured at Columbia University’s MFA program in 2018. As an editor, Abbasi worked on "Last Chance High" in 2015, which received an Emmy nomination for outstanding editing. As a music composer, Abbasi’s music compositions have appeared in several commercials, films, and documentaries, and most recently he was a music consultant for "Halloween" (2018) and "Halloween Kills" (2020). In 2008, he and his brother’s debut album, "Something Like Nostalgia", topped the charts in Japan.

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