Doc Fortnight Shorts 1: Intersecting Memories

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ذاكرة متقاطعة (Intersecting Memory). 2025. Palestine/France. Directed by Shayma’ Awawdeh. Courtesy the filmmaker

Return of the Bright Night. 2025. Canada. Directed by Sophie Sabet. US premiere. DCP. In Farsi; English subtitles. 9 min.
The Other Spring. 2026. Romania / Canada. Directed by Monica Maria Moraru. World Premiere. DCP. In Romanian; English subtitles. 24 min.
ពនេចរ (The Nightseekers). 2026. Cambodia. Directed by Kavich Neang. World premiere. DCP. In Khmer; English subtitles. 25 min.
ذاكرة متقاطعة (Intersecting Memory). 2025. Palestine/France. Directed by Shayma’ Awawdeh. North American premiere. DCP. In Arabic; English subtitles. 20 min.

Representing a mix of formal approaches, the four films in this program are situated at the meeting point of youth, place, and memory. In Sophie Sabet’s lo-fi, fragmentary Return of the Bright Night, the filmmaker’s mother recounts an episode of utopic hope and violence amid the Iranian Revolution. Monica Maria Moraru’s Izvoarele (The Other Spring) follows the artist’s return to her familial Romanian village, invoking both intimate and shared histories of the region. The invocation of history continues in Kavich Neang’s Pnechar (The Nightseekers), an invaluable time capsule that re-edits 2014 footage the filmmaker captured of a family from the now demolished White Building in Phnom Penh, which also informed his 2021 feature White Building. Shayma’ Awawdeh’s Intersecting Memory edits together archival material from the Second Intifada, while the filmmaker reflects on her childhood memories of the era in voiceover. A work of righteous anger executed with grace and sumud, it reminds us of the traces we carry within us, even if unconsciously.

Program 78 min.

This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2026: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

Past events

Tue, Mar 10, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Sat, Mar 7, 2:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Monica Moraru and Sophie Sabet

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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