Origin: USA | Fiction | Director: Reem Jubran | 11 minutes

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Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and Alzheimer's grandfather about his identity on an average night gone terribly wrong.

Mariam is an ode to Zaid, a closeted young Arab-American teen who deals with a one-dimensional angry father, takes care for his grandfather suffering from Alzheimer’s, but also struggles with understanding his identity, duty to his family, fear of rejection and the impossibility of his acceptance to his family and culture.

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