Film Screening 'Waiting For Happiness', Host: Wendy Wilson-Fall

Waiting for Happiness (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako, 2002, 96 min.) Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning. The film is characterized by a succession of scenes of the daily life of the characters, which are unique to their particular African and Arab cultures, plus moments of beauty, struggle, alienation, and humor experienced by divided social groups.

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