Release Date

01 Jan, 2018

Runtime

00:12: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

1991 revolves around a FaceTime phone conversation between the filmmaker, an Iraqi asylum-seeker living in the United States, and his mother, Bushra Alsaegh, an Iraqi immigrant living in Turkey while she awaits approval to immigrate to the United States. The film shows how a relationship can become virtual and symbolic across forced distance.