A
event
held at Watershed
on Saturday 7th December. The event starts at 15:00.
Saturday 7th December 2024
15:00 to 16:30
Watershed, BS1 5TX
£11 / £8.50 / £5
https://boxoffice.watershed.co.uk/ticketbooth/shows/1173653226/events/428631181?l=i
90 mins
A time-travelling Lebanese woman, Leila, visits the women’s resistance throughout the twentieth century, joining with Lebanese and Palestinian women throughout time.
Includes a pre-recorded introduction by Elhum Shakerifar.
Elhum is a BAFTA nominated producer, winner of the 2017 Women in Film & TV’s BBC Factual Award, and one of Screen International’s 2018 #Brit50 Producers on the Rise. Elhum’s multi-award-winning credits include A Syrian Love Story (Sean McAllister, 2015), BIFA winner for Best Documentary, Almost Heaven (Carol Salter, 2017) and Of Love & Law (Hikaru Toda, 2017). Elhum was recipient of the 2016 BFI Vision Award. Elhum is now MENA and Iran programme advisor for London Film Festival and Film Curator for Shubbak, festival of contemporary Arab culture. In 2017, she was nominated for the Arab British Centre’s Award for Culture. Alongside her work in film, Elhum is also a writer and translator.