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IF I DIE IN AMERICA

By Ward KAMEL

WARD KAMEL - as PROD

LGBT - Completed 2023

A young man fights for a chance to grieve his husband after his traditional Muslim in-laws demand the body be sent back to the Middle East mere hours after the untimely death.

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SXSW 2024
Narrative Short Competition
SXSW 2024
Narrative Short Grand Jury Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Drama
    • Countries
    • USA, PUERTO RICO
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 15 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ward KAMEL
    • Writer(s)
    • Ward KAMEL
    • Producer(s)
    • Adrian LAUSELL CABAN (Elessar Films), Cameron MORTON
    • Synopsis
    • According to Muslim practice, burial ought to occur within 24 hours of death — so after Manny’s immigrant husband, Sameer, passes away suddenly, he is quickly confronted by a representative of Sameer’s family urging Manny to sign the release papers necessary to ship the body back home to Kuwait.

      Manny spends the next 24 hours clinging on to his rights as Sameer's husband and life-partner, knowing that with every passing hour, Sameer's family grows more and more infuriated. After an emotional climax, spurred on partly by the family’s homophobic claim that Manny and Sameer’s marriage was a green-card arrangement, not a loving partnership, Manny finally gets a chance to talk to Sameer's mother, who had been avoiding his calls since the death. By connecting with his mother-in-law, Manny comes to realize that delaying the burial and denying the family’s wishes will not change the fact that his husband has passed — try as he might, he cannot delay grief.
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