Clermont-Ferrand Winner Eimi Imanishi Preps Western Sahara-Set ‘Doha – The Rising Sun’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Naman Ramachandran Eimi Imanishi is thematically expanding her Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival winner, “Battalion to My Beat,” as a narrative feature film titled “Doha – The Rising Sun.” The film, written and directed by Imanishi, will follow Mariam, a young woman who is forced to return home to Western Sahara when she is deported from Europe. Adrift in the very place that was once her home, she desperately searches for the means to assert agency over her own life.