'Insistent Focus': an evening of short films by women* filmmakers from the global majority
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- Kamran Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT)
- Event type
- Film screening & Event highlights
About this event
Hosted by the SOAS Library, Insistent Focus presents an evening of short films by women* filmmakers from the global majority, featuring works that explore displacement, identity, memory, and political imagination across diverse cinematic styles.
Presented by the SOAS Library in collaboration with Girls in Film and Cinelogue, this screening brings together five short films by women* filmmakers from the Cinelogue library, spanning Palestine, Lebanon, Singapore, Indonesia, and the diaspora. Moving across speculative fiction, docu-fiction, and personal memory, the films reflect on displacement, identity, queer futures, inherited histories, and political imagination through distinct cinematic languages.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Nikola Vasakova, founder of Girls in Film and Rehana Esmail, founder of Cinelogue.
Image credit: Sugiharti Halim by Ariani Darmawan
Programme
- Scenes from Home by Cynthia Sawma (Lebanon, 2022): 24 minutes
- Tigress by Maya Bastian (Canada, 2021): 13 minutes
- Nation Estate by Larissa Sansour (Palestine, Denmark, 2012): 9 minutes
- What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world by Charmaine Poh (Singapore, 2024): 15 minutes
- Sugiharti Halim by Ariani Darmawan (Indonesia, 2008): 10 minutes
