Musa Syeed’s film “A Stray” follows Adan (Barkhad Abdirahman), a Somali refugee living in Minneapolis with no place to go. His mom has kicked him out and his friends are tired of his headstrong ways. As a last resort, he moves into the mosque, and surprisingly, God answers his prayers. He quickly lands a good job, devout friends, and a newfound faith, but things go south when Adan nearly hits a stray dog on the job and is forced to take it in for a night. Soon, Adan’s faith will be tested and his only friend in sight is a stray dog. Check out the trailer and poster below.
Read More: SXSW Review: Musa Syeed’s Refugee Drama ‘A Stray’
This is Syeed’s second narrative feature film. His first “Valley of Saints,” about a young man’s desperate escape from Kashmir, won the World Cinema Audience Award...
Read More: SXSW Review: Musa Syeed’s Refugee Drama ‘A Stray’
This is Syeed’s second narrative feature film. His first “Valley of Saints,” about a young man’s desperate escape from Kashmir, won the World Cinema Audience Award...
- 10/11/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
My producer Nicholas Bruckman reminded me that without investors, I had no one to answer to. I could make the film exactly how I wanted to. Being able to take creative risks is the most satisfying part of filmmaking, especially when those risks pay off: Musa Syeed
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed’s first feature film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which begins on January 19, 2012. The film was shot in Kashmir during the peak of unrest in 2010. It tells the story of a boatman who wants out of Kashmir but a beautiful young woman researching the dying Dal lake leads him to contemplate a different future.
Later this month, the film will have a screening in the Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Musa Syeed
Musa Syeed is an independent writer and filmmaker of Kashmiri origin based in New York. He received the Alfred P. Sloan...
Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed’s first feature film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which begins on January 19, 2012. The film was shot in Kashmir during the peak of unrest in 2010. It tells the story of a boatman who wants out of Kashmir but a beautiful young woman researching the dying Dal lake leads him to contemplate a different future.
Later this month, the film will have a screening in the Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Musa Syeed
Musa Syeed is an independent writer and filmmaker of Kashmiri origin based in New York. He received the Alfred P. Sloan...
- 1/18/2012
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
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