Maybe Tomorrow (in person: Waad Al-Kateab)

 

Wafa Mustafa and Waad Al-Kateab: Maybe Tomorrow (GB 2026).

Telluride Film Festival (TFF) 2026

Viewed at Le Pierre, 6 Sep 2026

TFF 2026 Program Guide:

L/Sun 3:45PM Q&A

3 Stories of Resilience

TFF: "Three deeply intimate, human stories reveal the realities of authoritative state-control through history, and the enduring, integral resilience of family, neighbors, and community. Director Sarah Gavron’s A DANCE THROUGH TIME (U.K., 2026, 25m) brings her grandmother’s audio recordings—a memoir of her childhood—into a new focus, casting family members to enact, in shadow theater, a slow, painful family separation necessitated by the rise of Nazi Germany. In MAYBE TOMORROW, journalist and activist Wafa Mustafa refuses to let up her search for her father, one of more than 160,000 civilians disappeared during Assad’s regime (Wafa Mustafa and Waad Al-Kateab, U.K., 2026, 40m). With SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON (U.S., 2026, 18m), Bill Morrison provides a startling composite of ICE body-cam footage and civilian cell phone recordings, creating a shocking account of an October 2025 incident in Chicago, in which a young man is detained in the street, prompting a neighborhood protest." –TFF In person: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson, Waad Al-Kateab, [Wafa Mustafa could not attend], Bill Morrison

AA: In Maybe Tomorrow, Wafa Mustafa tells about the search for her father, long lost in the prison system of the regime of Assad in Syria. Her single-minded search is connected to an epic pursuit of thousands of relatives tirelessly trying to track down their beloved ones in the brutal machinery of repression. Eloquent and powerful.