Zia Mohajerjasbi, the winner of the 2009 Genius Award for film and the director of a number of Macklemore's music videos, will present his first major work, Hagereseb, tomorrow as part of SIFF's program "Faces of Yesler Terrace."

Lyrical and filled with the solemn winter light of the Northwest, the film is set in the '90s and concerns the small world and troubles of an Eritrean American boy. He wants to make music, he needs batteries for a synthesizer, he has cultural and generational conflicts with his traditional family, and also his neighborhood is a little rough. This small world within a world that was born from the noblest ideas of the New Deal era is mostly gone. We are now living in a city that has become too expensive for many in the community portrayed in this longish short film.

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