Know Your Place

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Know Your Place

2022

1h 57m

Drama

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Robel Haile, an Eritrean-American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents' homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend Fahmi Tadesse, when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the rapidly gentrifying city of Seattle; navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community he's ever known as home.

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Murtada Elfadl

Variety

08/17/2024

Know Your Place stumbles when trying to encompass too much story and doesn’t always give its smaller characters the level of nuance it affords the leads. Despite that, it remains alluring and does not lose audience investment in its characters.

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Tina Kakadelis

Film Obsessive

11/29/2024

Know Your Place is a personal story of identity, one that feels universal in its quest for belonging.

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Megan Fisher

Loud and Clear Reviews

11/27/2024

4.5/5

Mohajerjasbi understands that oftentimes what is said on the human face is more powerful than what is vocalized.

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Natasha Alvar

The Fiction Department

11/26/2024

3.5/5

Know Your Place is gorgeously shot, and even in dim spaces like Robel’s family home, everyone’s faces are sufficiently lit in a way that feels natural and not overdone.

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

06/22/2022

At times, there could be more focus in scenes tied directly to the plot to eliminate overstating a point, but it’s a small price to pay for what the film captures in its unforced natural rhythm...

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

04/18/2022

This kind of city has less and less space for the working classes. Two: the city that's losing its color. Black Americans were the first to go. Now it's black Africans. Next will be East Asian Americans. Know Your Place takes place in the now.

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Robel Haile, an Eritrean-American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents' homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend Fahmi Tadesse, when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the rapidly gentrifying city of Seattle; navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community he's ever known as home.

Director: Zia Mohajerjasbi
Producer: Ty Walker, Zia Mohajerjasbi
Screenwriter: Zia Mohajerjasbi
Distributor: Blue Harbor Entertainment
Production Co: Blue Harbor Entertainment, Tycor International Film Company
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 3, 2024
Runtime: 1h 57m