Know Your Place, a drama following two teenage Ethiopian-Americans engaging in an odyssey across Seattle, was awarded the Golden Space Needle audience award for best film in 2022. Director Zia Mohajerjasbi and producer Rhett Taylor will be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.
Event Details:
November 7th, 7:45 PM
Pickford Film Center
1318 Bay St.
Bellingham, WA
Film Description: Robel Haile, an Eritrean-American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents' homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend Fahmi Tadesse, when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the rapidly gentrifying city of Seattle; navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community he's ever known as home.
“Indeed, a part of the sadness that courses through Know Your Place has as its source an unsaid consequence of the raw displacement of POCs by primarily wealthy white Americans: Not only can POCs not afford to live in the city but, more importantly (and spiritually), they can't afford to live in a beautiful city… …In this film, Mohajerjasbi presents something that is entirely new (if not revolutionary): a political economy of urban beauty.” - Charles Mudede, The Stranger
Tickets available now: https://www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/know-your-place/