Shorts: Femininity and Migration
Sat 26 Nov
|London
A selection of 8 short films exploring the intersection between femininity and migration. London Migration Film Festival is an annual film festival that has been running since 2016.
Time & Location
26 Nov 2022, 15:00 – 27 Nov 2022, 17:00
London, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Ln, London SW2 1JG, UK
About the event
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shorts-femininity-and-migration-tickets-453385346777
They’re Playing My Song: Josephine (dir: Thom Andrewes, Catherine Carter, Miriam Sherwood, Will Gardner) Josephine goes through her eclectic taste in music, before sharing the story of one song that is important to her, So Ala Temen by Rex Lawson, as it reminds her of the stories her grandad would tell the children in her village in Nigeria, and of the Biafra-Nigerian war.
The Sparrow Is Free (dir: Niki Kohandel) Through a window into the life of the filmmaker's grandmother, we explore 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 moves to France with her sons, building a new life.
The Curtain (dir: Kateryna Pavlyuk) Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, three generations of Ukrainian women relay their memories, variously sharp and hazy, of three distinct…