BIFA are excited to join forces with Minute Shorts to celebrate the UK’s outstanding talent within the short film industry.
Minute Shorts are facilitating an important conversation – British filmmakers telling global stories. This is exemplified and defined by both the stories themselves and their setting but also their universal truths. Many artists have a deep longing as storytellers to tell stories that exist within their family or personal history, focusing on the second-gen immigrant story, so we’ll explore this too through the seminal works of some of our favourite filmmakers today.
The line-up includes short films nominated in BIFA’s Best British Short Film Awards category, sponsored by BFI NETWORK.
The event will follow Minute Shorts’ celebrated format of a special opening performance, screening of 6 short films, followed by a panel discussion.
The Event
Date: 24 May 2022
Time: 18:30-20:45
Location: Genesis Cinema, London
Opening performer
Femi Oshodi (pseudonym moonchile) is a creator whose works span performance art, film, sound and spoken word. His works are a tapestry of fantasy and memory; an exploration into the universal conscious.
Line up
FEMME / dir. Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping / 2021 / UK / 18 mins / When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.
Bitter Sea / dir. Fateme Ahmadi / 2017 / UK / 15 mins / To keep her job and home in London, an immigrant single mother has to hide her five-year-old daughter from her boss and landlord.
Play It Safe / dir. Mitch Kalisa / 2020 / UK / 13 mins / A parable on race, focusing on the microaggressions experienced by Jonathan, a student attending an affluent London drama school.
Tall Are The Roots / dir. Fenn O’Meally / 2021 / UK / 18 mins / 2021 / A short film navigated by the push and pull of the modern mind in today’s world. Tall Are the Roots collects dance, music, poetry, and philosophy and distils them into raw feelings.
Wifi Rider / dir. Roxy Rezvany / 2021 / UK / 13 mins / A young Palestinian turns to the internet as he struggles to shape his identity under the pressures of life in East Jerusalem and creates a home-grown Palestinian fashion brand.
Flowers / dir. Dumas Haddad / 2022 / UK / 8 mins / An afro-futuristic fairytale of love, following a ceremony of a mother giving away her son, adopting references to classic Disney stories from the 1930s-50s, modernising tropes for a coming-of-age tale.
The Host
Demii Lee Walker is an actor, creative and presenter, who is currently presenting for a new Sky Arts show, which aims to amplify the upcoming voices in the arts.
The Panel
Anthony Andrews is an award-winning creative director and co-founder of We Are Parable, a film exhibition company that provides opportunities for global audiences to experience Black Cinema in culturally relevant, unique and memorable ways as well as a BAFTA film committee member.
Dumas Haddad is a director and writer raised in London who has developed his craft from the world of fashion, music & bleeding edge culture. His work elicits powerful uses of poetic analogies and on-the-pulse narrative and character underpinnings.
Roxy Rezvany is an independent British artist filmmaker of Iranian-Malaysian-Chinese descent. Her artistic mission is to bring marginalised narratives to the mainstream and expand what we perceive as ‘British’.
Tickets
Head over to Genesis here to book tickets.
