female filmmaker — Features

Darin J. Sallam’s debut feature film shares “our side of the narrative” of the Palestinian Nakba

As this year’s Safar Film Festival gets underway, we speak to the award-winning Jordanian director on how she tried to epitomise Palestinian joy coupled with imposing social restrictions in her debut feature Farha, which tells the story of a little girl in 1948 Palestine who survives the Nakba and is concealed in a cupboard by her father to protect her from pending danger.

RESISTANCE, ARTS & CULTUREAZEEMA -July 8, 2022Palestine, female filmmaker, jordan, arab, arab directors, arab women directors, cinema, arab cinema

Filmmaker Sonita Gale documents the UK's hostile migration environment through her personal South Asian history

Documentary filmmaker Sonita Gale talks us through her reasons behind making her recent BAFTA-shortlisted film ‘Hostile’ and how her family’s migration from India to working-class white neighbourhoods in the North of England has inspired her wider creative and political work.

RESISTANCE, ARTS & CULTUREAZEEMA -March 7, 2022culture, british-asian, pakistani, pakistan, asian, working-class, film, filmmaker, female filmmaker, documentary, immigrants, migration, politics