Micro Film Film Screening

Schedule

Sat Jan 22 2022 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Location

Root25 | London, EN

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Root25 presents:
NIGHT CAFE: Micro Film Film Screening
About this Event

Welcome to root25's next NIGHT CAFE: a night of micro film, film screenings featuring the works of Annusheh Rahim, Niki Kohandel and Hamza Pool.


Annusheh Rahim is a writer and director based between London, Lahore and Tehran. She holds a Honours degree in Comparative Literature with Film from King’s College London. ‘Raqs’ is her directorial debut.

Her film is called Raqs: On 5th July 1977, aspiring actress Ara has an audition for a big film, and her housemaid Rukhsana teaching her how to dance for it. The role practically belongs to Ara - until the director sees Rukhsana dance. Set against the backdrop of Zia-ul-Haq's oncoming Martial rule, Raqs offers the freedom of self-expression as the antidote to fearful rhetoric.

Niki Kohandel (b. 2000, Paris) is an artist and filmmaker, in her third year of undergraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She works with analogue and digital mediums, using photography and filmmaking to blur the boundaries between documentary, fiction and poetry. By collaborating and writing with members of her family, she aims to create visual poems that also act as socio-political narratives, conjuring forgotten and imagined realities, one bedtime story at a time. Her films have been shown as part of group screenings with Habibi Collective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, T A P E Collective at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York and more recently at London Short Film Festival.

Her film: Through a window into the life of her grandmother, 'The Sparrow is free' questions the meaning of happiness whilst exploring gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Hamza Pool is a filmmaker and composer with experience in music videos and narrative filmmaking. As someone who has been influenced by various styles and national cinemas, he constantly experiments with different genre and narrative techniques, while maintaining a sense of drama and social commentary; constant throughout his directorial work. His films address political and social issues, with a strong emphasis on the disenfranchised, and those under systems of oppression. He won the Evcom FOCUS Award in 2020 for his short film Magpie.

His film, 'Jahannam' is about a Palestinian detainee who goes on a hunger strike after being separated from his daughter and incarcerated without trial or charge, a victim of Israel’s use of administrative detention. Inspired by recent cases, Hamza's film tackles the issue of administrative detention and Israel's use of this practice to imprison thousands of Palestinians for lengthy periods of time. The film also explores the use of hunger strikes by detainees as a form of protest, and how the Israeli Pr*son system punishes such resistance.


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