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In celebration of Refugee Week, join us for an evening of short films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers behind them, delivered in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts.
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This year, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice and migration – have curated a film programme exploring this year’s Refugee Week theme of Our Home.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, hosted by Counterpoints Arts producer Laith Elzubaidi.
Please join us after the event for an opportunity to network with refugee and asylum seeker creatives.
Click here to find out more about Refugee Week, taking place from 17-23 June.
Find out more about each film below:
Little Pyongyang by Roxy Rezvany
With exclusive access to one of the world’s largest community on North Korean defectors, this is a tale of one North Korean’s struggle to leave behind the homeland. Joong-wha Choi, a former soldier in the DPRK, lives today with his wife and kids in a sleepy London suburb. Despite enjoying the new found comforts of his British life, and being emancipated from the pressures of the North Korean state, his dilemma lies in a desire to return to the land that betrayed him, but is undoubtedly his true home.
Motherland by Ellen Evan
Motherland speaks to the experiences of the Windrush generation and subsequent generations of Jamaicans navigating the landscape of the UK’s hostile environment.
A Swing In Atayfiyah by Bediah
A Swing in Atayfiyah
dwells in the memory of homes and friendships left behind in Iraq, the irrecoverable sense of belonging, and the dissonance of diaspora.
I Carry It With Me Everywhere by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah
I Carry It With Me Everywhere draws a line across multiple temporalities and registers of immigrant life, uniting three different stories of migration in Northwest London through a shared condition of fragmentation.
Unfortunately Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are no longer able to join the panel for this event.
About Counterpoints Arts
Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts, migration and cultural change. Our mission is to support and produce the arts by and about migrants and refugees, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognized and welcomed within British arts, history and culture. Central to our mission is our belief that arts can inspire social change and enhance inclusion & cultural integration of refugees & migrants.
About Other Cinemas
Other Cinemas is a project established to support more equitable ways of making and sharing films for Black and non-white communities. In addition to curation, Other Cinemas also run their own free community screenings and a free year-long film school in Brent.
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