LINEOUT

I did not want to make a film about grief. I wanted to create an invitation into the quiet space where grief can finally be felt.

LineOut began with footage I recorded during my family’s escape from Kabul in 2021, when survival left little room to process loss. Years later, I returned to those fragments through imagination, placing firsthand images beside dreamlike scenes on the California coast.

The film lives in that space between escape and aftermath, memory and healing.

— Nazila Azizi