Know Your Place

In this striking debut feature from Zia Mohajerjasbi, an Eritrean-American teen embarks on an odyssey through a rapidly gentrifying Seattle.

Robel is just about keeping it together following the death of his father. He is tasked by his mother to deliver a suitcase full of medicine and money for a sick relative in Eritrea. When that goes awry, Robel is forced on a journey through the changing landscape of Seattle – the tightly knit Eritrean and Ethiopian communities, prejudiced police force and gentrifying white residents – to find his place, not just in his city but his own life. Evoking the early work of Barry Jenkins and Adam Leon, but with a visual style that’s unique to Mohajerjasbi, Know Your Place is an evocative, fascinating and carefully constructed debut from a director to watch. Screened as part of the Journey strand.

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