The kidnapping of a little girl creates tension and suspicion in Algiers. Only Dounia, a brilliant psychiatrist, and Sami, a police inspector, can unearth the demons of the past.
Over the spring, summer, and fall of 2020 while COVID restrictions came and went, six people with lived experience of homelessness in Edmonton, Alberta told their stories in their own words. Those words formed five-minute monologue scripts, and the original interviewees reviewed the text, and made changes where they wished. Over the fall of 2021 and winter of 2022 actors rehearsed and recorded those monologues to camera.
Say My Name is a documentary about two transgender women, Selem and Diana, who are struggling for the right to change their names and gender in all official documents and seeking respect from their families and society.