<i>"If a road leads to truth but the truth has many faces contradicting one another, is it any truth at all? Or does this road lead to traitors?"</i> This line spoken by 'Dalal', the lead character in Sama AlShaibi's film that gets its UAE premiere tonight at , strikes at the heart of the artist's unsettling 2010 short. AlShaibi is in Dubai at the moment being hosted by the US Consulate General. She was in Bastakiya last night, discussing some of the themes of her film and also the wider representation of women in art. 'End of September' follows the ghostly meanderings of a woman once involved in the liberation movements in Palestine. It a glancing, complex narrative - at times, it's difficult to pin down exactly what's happening. But I think that's part of the point here, AlShaibi wants to present the complex nature of history, the making of history and also the conflicting ideas of what that might be in a country under occupation. There's an excellent synopsis of the film . In the course of the film, we watch as time starts to distort and overlap. Past, present and a strange ultra-dramatised future start to emerge. AlShaibi's lead returns to a Palestine she thought she knew, only to find it distorted and scattered through varying eras of her own life and history. In one of the strangest scenes, we see what looks like a hijacked bus hurtling through the Palestinian countryside. Yet there is something self-concious about the scene. The hijackers hold their guns with an almost flippant air, the rattle of gunfire sounds intentionally shoddy, as if we're watching some theatrical rendition of revolutionary action. Truth is at the centre of this film; it questions the way that generations run into one another and how idealism is distorted in that passage. The nonchalance of Dalal- a former fadai at the centre of the First Intafada - as she sits on this hijacked bus seems directed at the brittle drama that she watches taking place around her. Everything, ultimately, is an imagined in this film. We stare into the mind of the main character as she pieces together moments from her past and tries to imagine a future. AlShaibi will introduce and explain some of the ideas behind the piece after its screening. Entrance is free, and the film screens at 7.30pm, lasting just over 15 minutes. <i><a href="www.pavilion.ae">pavilion.ae</a></i>