Scaring Women at Night (2022)

Directed by

Karimah Zakia Issa

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

11 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Black transgender man walks alone at night and worries that a woman nearby sees him as dangerous. The film follows his internal nervousness and the tension of the encounter.

tenseanxiousintrospectiveuneasygroundedquieturbancontemplative

What happens

Scaring Women at Night is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Karimah Zakia Issa and released in 2022. The film stars Izaiah Dockery as Ash, a Black transgender man who is walking alone in the dark, but becomes very nervous that Ella (Kavita Musty), a woman also walking alone nearby, may potentially view him as a threat. The film premiered in the Short Cuts program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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