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Highlights

• Short film Elijah traces the emotional toll of migration on a Bangladeshi family in the US
  
• A child’s evolving identity exposes generational and cultural fault lines within an immigrant household
  
• The film links personal conflict to wider despair among displaced communities
  

A quiet opening that sets the divide

Razid Season’s short film Elijah opens on an unassuming domestic moment: a family seated around a dining table. The parents eat with their hands, while their daughter uses a spoon. The contrast, subtle but deliberate, signals the generational gap that underpins the film. This divide soon sharpens when the child resists her mother’s insistence on traditional clothing and asks to be called Elijah.

Further tension emerges when the father dismisses same-sex relationships while watching a television news segment, unaware that his own child is already questioning both gender and identity. Season avoids direct explanation, allowing everyday interactions to reveal the growing distance between parents and child.