After the sudden loss of his Mother from cancer in 2022, a Palestinian American artist recalls and reaffirms his Mother’s life from Palestine to Detroit. Min Eedi bridges the family's extensive material archive of his Mother, and the memory that exists of her within the realms of personal and collective grief.

About the Filmmaker:

Costa Kazaleh Sirdenis (b. 1988) is a multi-disciplined artist and fabricator living in Detroit, MI. Currently, he divides his professional time as a dolly grip and set photographer for narrative, documentary, and commercial film work. In 2024, along with three other local Detroit filmmakers, CKS was selected as a Detroit Narrative Agency Fellow as part of their year and half long Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. 

Drawing upon his Palestinian and Greek identities, as well as his family’s history with Detroit, Costa’s work seeks to reflect on the potent realities of his environments and experiences through honest, hopeful, and challenging representations of the working class, SWANA populations in diaspora, and a future beyond colonial torment.