Nika Khanjani's amazing short film had a special screening in her now resident town of Montreal. This short toured some International festival including RIDM 2015 (Canada), Cambridge Film Festival (England) & Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden) and we were lucky to screen this at "Les Dames du Doc" Cine-Cub. This is a story, based on Texas, My Brother, and Me (2009) initial sketch by Nika Khanjani and took years to develop fully with riveting results. It deals with the solitary confinement in a Texas prison of Nika's younger brother who got thrown in jail there before she moved to Montreal. She did this movie in order to express and share his condition and how this situation affects her personally. Beautifully haunting images of Montreal and sad narration of prison letters, spoken with Nika's voice, provides a stark contrast of freedom and beauty versus dark days, loneliness and repression experienced in another world. The connection between the siblings is real and the conflict and guilt felt by both, and perhaps also the audience, is revealing. What are we doing with this freedom? Are we enjoying our simple life to the fullest? Do we see the beauty in it every day? Streets, alleys, park, metros and other wonders have rarely being filmed and put into context like this. The change of seasons symbolizes time passed and the hope for change. The images on their own and cinematography by Shanon Harris are very powerful, but the choice of narration tone, content and overall mood make it masterful. Transcending work. Canada 2015 | 21 min |Les Dames du Doc |English (with French subtitles)