The close relationship between two sisters is broken down irrevocably, when one insists on keeping up with tradition.
Official Selection Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2022
1994, Rwanda. As the civil war rages on, Bazigaga takes in a father and his daughter, both hunted by the militia.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Nomination - Best British Short Film
To what extent has our intimacy become a commodity? Where is the outsized exaltation of subjectivity leading us? Why do we talk about oversharing intimacy? Does the unlimited circulation of information threaten our intimacy?
A take on Mahabharata from the perspective of today's women. The film is an anthology of three tales depicting three women confined to the same room, not necessarily at the same time, and their struggle to escape in search of a better life.
Thirty something Indian sisters Rumi and Nina journey to London in pursuit of their music dream. But working at an Indian Takeaway wasn’t part of the plan.
RESISTANCE SAHARA, a haunting yet playful exploration of the liminal space between experimental, documentary, and fictive filmmaking, presents an artistic response to the Sahrawi refugee crisis from the frozen war in Western Sahara. Bringing international artists from a mix of disciplines to the Sahara Desert, and with them will create something new, a response to what they encounter.
The film mix testimony from the mouths of the people who live in each zone of crisis with music; image; and symbolism. The audience is invited to reconsider their view of the nature of human suffering, and to build a new bridge of empathy with the people in these remote and sometimes forgotten places.
A portmanteau short comprising a series of dramatic episodes tracing the life experiences of several female characters from the pages of George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'; centring human rights issues and state-sponsored oppression.
Focusing on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House – a unique municipal site that straddles the jurisdictions of Canada and the United States – the work continually recasts the border as at once powerful yet facile, absurd yet lethal.
Filmed on location to activate the legal and symbolic potential of the site, 45th PARALLEL unfolds as a monologue in five acts, performed by acclaimed filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel. The story centres on Hernández vs. Mesa, a judicial case covering the fatal shooting in 2010 of an unarmed fifteen-year-old Mexican national by a US Border Patrol agent. At the supreme court Mesa’s bullet, which crossed the US/Mexico border, began to implicate missiles fired in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. If this murder could be tried in the US, so too could 91,340 drone strikes.
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
As the Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s doomed airport, Annina witnessed the unearthing of a terrible secret - a mass burial ground of 8,000 formerly enslaved Africans. Haunted by this injustice - and echoes of her childhood in Apartheid Namibia - she now fights for memorialisation of these forgotten victims.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2022 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
A reflection on how the weight of the past walks with us and the indifference of the ever-present, observant sea.
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2022
An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - International premiere
