Join us at BAFTA for a special Refugee Week evening of short films followed by a panel + Q&A with the filmmakers. Delivered in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, this special event will be followed by an opportunity to network with refugee and asylum seeker creatives and filmmakers.
This year, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice and migration – have collaborated on a film programme taking place during Refugee Week: June 17th-23rd.
The programme, curated by Other Cinemas, consists of 3 feature films and 6 short films.
These films can be watched across the UK for free; either at home or used for a community screening! No need to get rights or licensing, they have been arranged for the duration of Refugee Week. They will be available to be screened anywhere in the UK for free!
If you would like to gain access to these films to put on a screening or watch the films yourself- please go to www.refugeeweek.org.uk or go to the Refugee Week Instagram page, to find a Google Form that you can fill out to gain access.
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.
Hosted by Counterpoints Arts producer Laith Elzubaidi.
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