Jorge Camarotti’s “Ousmane” is a quiet film full of big emotions, in which an African immigrant, Ousmane, reaches out to an older woman with dementia, Édith. Pushed to the margins of a society that regards them as outsiders, Ousmane and Édith are surviving, but they’re lonely. “I was trying to show this feeling of invisibility that these individuals experience in our society,” Camarotti said. The experience of being an immigrant has some resonance with the experience of having dementia, Camarotti said: both scenarios interrupt the continuity between past and present selves, the stuff that, for most, is the cornerstone of identity. Watch the award-winning short film at the link in our bio.