Film London x Womens Museum: T A P E Presents May They Remember Us
As part of the Film London x Womens Museum: T A P E Collective presents a short film programme of films by women of the role women play in preserving and shaping history.
Inspired by Materiality of Memory T A P E takes a look at the immaterial ways of oral storytelling and its significance in preserving memory, history and a legacy. From ancestral stories, stories passed on between women in a family and online preservation of one specific moment; May They Remember Us is a celebration of the fragments which have remained and the people uncovered while grieving the moments we’ll never know of. The screening will be followed by an ‘A Route to the Image’ filmmaker Reman Sadani to discuss her work around archives and oral storytelling.
FREE, but ticketed: https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/646/
T A P E Collective and Exhale.Group present BOUCHRA (Preview)
This special preview, in collaboration with TAPE Collective, will include a panel discussion curated by Exhale. Group. Exhale. Group is an organisation by and for QTIBPOC+ (Queer, Trans and Intersex Black People and People of Colour), creating spaces for care, creativity and collective power in Glasgow and across Scotland.
Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralysed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.
TICKETS: https://www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/preview-bouchra-panel-discussion/
T A P E Collective and NAFS نَفْس present BOUCHRA (Preview)
Bouchra, a 35-year-old queer Moroccan coyote living in NYC, is wrestling with writer’s block. Whilst finishing the script for her autobiographical film Bouchra has a phone call with her mother in Casablanca. Their tender yet complex exchange leads to memories resurfacing and sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, unreconciled conflicts and the thrills of love and romance.
This screening will be followed by a discussion curated by NAFS نَفْس, a London-based platform curating exhibitions, events, and workshops celebrating Queer SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) creatives.
Moderator
Heidi El-Kholy is an Egyptian writer and creative, channeling anger at the fuckery of geopolitics into workshops that span art, food, poetry, film, and simply existing for the community. She loves cultivating and collaborating on cool shit and is one half of Salt and Sister Studio, with her sister (duh). She works on branding and creative with organisations and individuals who are politically and ethically aligned. Loves reality TV and talking about how time and frizz are colonial concepts.
Panellists
Rahim El Habachi is a Moroccan born, London based theatre maker, actor, writer, performer and creative producer. His work explores queer identity, migration, masculinity, belonging and the relationship between personal stories and wider political histories.
He is he founder and Artistic Director of HOMNA, a collective creating space for queer SWANA artists through theatre, cabaret and community events.
Rahim’s performance and writing credits include work with Welsh National Opera, Sherman Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre, Fio and Glitter Cymru. His projects include The Love Thief, a solo performance combining theatre, mythology and belly dance; Touch, a short film exploring love, assimilation and cultural erasure; and Tanger, a play examining queerness, colonialism and power in 1950s Tangier.
Alongside his artistic practice, Rahim has extensive experience in community organising, advocacy, event production and public speaking. He is passionate about creating bold, accessible work that centres voices often excluded from mainstream stages and screens.
Mahdi Marvdashti’s interest in animation started young, family friend who taught him the basics, and that stuck with him. He later trained more formally in animation, drawn especially to what he thinks of as subliminal narrative, the way a story can carry meaning underneath the plot, in the small choices of image and symbol.
That's shaped how he thinks about storytelling more generally, and why narrative accuracy matters to him, not getting swept up in what a story could be, but paying attention to what it actually is, who it belongs to, and what might get lost in the telling. He later studied sociology, which gave him more language for thinking about culture and representation.
They currently work in community organising at NAFS, a London-based organisation rooted in the Queer SWANA diaspora, where these questions still come up in their day to day work.
They're glad to be part of this conversation, and mostly curious to hear how others in the room think about telling these stories well.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU + Q&A
In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.
Content Advice: This film contains depictions of military violence and includes themes of forced displacement, traumatic incidents and loss.
“All That’s Left of You has accomplished something rare. It makes history feel not like a lesson, but like a family heirloom passed down under duress. Language survives. Love survives. Ritual survives. But everything does so in reduced form, diminished not by fate but by policy, power, and the daily insistence that Palestinians prove their right to exist in the most basic ways. It does not argue this, it shows it, patiently, painfully, and with a tragic clarity that lingers long after the final image fades.” - eyeforfilm
Pay What You Can Tickets: https://deptfordcinema.org/new-events/allthatsleftofyou
SLUMP CINEMA: DRYLONGSO + INTRO
Slump Cinema will be screening Drylongso, with an introduction from Rhian Parker at CULTPLEX.
They are incredibly grateful to be hosting our first Manchester screening at CULTPLEX. As a growing community cinema, this feels like a significant milestone for them, and they're excited to share it with you!
Drylongso is a mystery, coming of age, slice of life drama, and a celebration of community. It follows Pica, our adorable protagonist, who begins photographing Black men and boys in her neighbourhood for a school project as they are increasingly being killed and disappearing from her community.
This film is so deeply moving and it offers reflection on race and class while reminding us of the strength that can be found in kindness and friendship. We hope you love it as much as we do.
CULTPLEX opens from 6pm, with the introduction and screening starting at 7pm. You're very welcome to join any time between then to grab a drink, get settled, and spend some time with Slump Cinema before the film begins.
This screening of Drylongso is licensed through TAPE Collective, a film exhibition and distribution company dedicated to giving platform to films by filmmakers from the global majority. They're incredibly grateful for the work they do in helping bring films to community audiences like ours, and Slumo Cinema delighted to be able to share Drylongso with you.
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
Content Warning: Domestic Abuse / Violence Racially or Sexually Motivated Violence
TICKETS: https://cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll/WhatsOn?f=1189600
Khartoum + Discussion
In this moving documentary, a collective of filmmakers capture the lives of a people caught up in a conflict that has ravaged Sudan.
A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two young bottle collectors. Five Khartoum residents from different walks of life, share their experiences of conflict and exile after escaping the Sudanese capital following a military coup and the outbreak of war. The filmmakers – also displaced by the war – weave together a personal and insightful film comprising footage shot prior to the escape, staged reenactments, and stories of migration and survival, highlighting the human cost of this conflict.
Contains scenes of war and graphic violence or injury.
Presented in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Khartoum + Q&A
In 2022, four Sudanese filmmakers, along with a British director-writer, began filming the lives and dreams of five very different citizens in Khartoum: Street boy Lokain (12) and his best friend Wilson (11) embark on a mission in Khartoum’s rubbish dumps to buy two beautiful shirts Khadmallah (28) a single mum and tea vendor engages her daily clientele in gossip and cardamom coffee whilst studying math to start her dream business Jawad (30) is a Sufi Rastafarian resistance volunteer who rides a motorcycle and protests for a civilian government against the military Civil servant Majdi (45) escapes office life by racing pigeons with his son.
When filming started, the Sudanese were faced with a military leadership that had brought down the previous civilian government. Soon, however, war broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, displacing over ten million people.
The filmmakers and participants escaped to East Africa but continued their innovative cinematic storytelling, combining animation, green screen reconstructions, and documentary ‘dreamscapes’ to tell their stories.
Filmed on location with donated iPhones, the four emerging Sudanese filmmakers (Anas Saeed, Rawia Al Hag, Brahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed) capture the stark realism of one of Africa's great cities as it is consumed by turmoil and war.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Naked Acts + Introduction at BFI Southbank
Celebrated as a key film in the canon of African-American independent cinema in the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s first and only feature is a fresh, sensitive exploration of a Black actress attempting to reclaim her sexuality.
Cicely, a beautiful aspiring actor, has just landed her first major role. But there’s a problem: it requires a nude scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of sexual assault with life-long body image issues. Combined, these issues have left her with a strong aversion to dis-robing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend Joel, she attempts to overcome her fear. Naked Acts is a gem of a rediscovery – a biting, witty takedown of cinematic and cultural mores.
This screening of Naked Acts will be introduced by Rógan Graham, BFI Film Programmer.
2023 restoration from original film stock preserved by Black Film Center & Archive (Indiana University).
Khartoum at Creatives of Colour 2026 Festival
Join us at Civic House Film for a screening of KHARTOUM (2025), followed by a panel discussion from film scholars Umloda Ibrahim and Zahra Khosroshahi.
Five lives, one city, a nation at war. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from Sudan weave together in search of freedom through animated dreams, street revolutions and a war from the metropolis of Khartoum to escape in East Africa.
£15 (solidarity) / £10 (standard) / £5 (concession)
Pay what you can / no one turned away for lack of funds - please email info@creativesofcolour.co.uk for this option.
Queer East: Queer as Punk Preview
LGBT punk band Shh...Diam! boldly turns up their music against rising conservatism and political upheaval in Malaysia.
Faris is the transman lead singer of an openly queer punk band in Malaysia, who along with his bandmates Yon and Yoyo uses music to fight for LGBTQ+ rights in a country where human rights and freedom of expression are severely curtailed.
Director Yihwen Chen follows the trio over several years, documenting their gigs, travels, and wide-ranging discussions. Despite increasing discrimination, the band are determined to continue using their nonconformist performances as a platform to advocate for freedom and equality, refusing to let social pressures silence their voice.
Queer as Punk is an enthusiastic testament to the band’s determination to be themselves, and love themselves, and a reminder of the liberating power of queer music.
Screening as part of QUEER EAST.
Naked Acts at BFI Southbank
Celebrated as a key film in the canon of African-American independent cinema in the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s first and only feature is a fresh, sensitive exploration of a Black actress attempting to reclaim her sexuality.
Cicely, a beautiful aspiring actor, has just landed her first major role. But there’s a problem: it requires a nude scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of sexual assault with life-long body image issues. Combined, these issues have left her with a strong aversion to dis-robing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend Joel, she attempts to overcome her fear. Naked Acts is a gem of a rediscovery – a biting, witty takedown of cinematic and cultural mores.
2023 restoration from original film stock preserved by Black Film Center & Archive (Indiana University).
Cotton Queen Preview + Intro
+ intro by film journalist Leila Latif
In Suzannah Mirghani’s feature debut, folklore and colonial resistance take centre stage in a Sudanese village.
Teenage Nafisa, enjoys a simple life in a Sudanese cotton-farming village, guided by her grandmother Al-Sit’s stories of resistance against British colonisers. When a young, local businessman returns with a development scheme and samples of genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa is drawn into a struggle over the village’s future. As tradition collides with modernity, she awakens to her own power. Mirghani’s feature directorial debut is a skilful blend of feminist themes and magical realism.
Analogue In Depth Screening: Cette Maison
As part of Open City Doc Festival; Curated and introduced by Jennifer Lauren Martin, this screening features a selection of works by black artists and filmmakers engaging with analogue film not simply as a medium, but as a deliberate aesthetic and political strategy.
Programme:
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)
Cauleen Smith, 1992, 6 min, 16mm
Cauleen Smith employs her alter ego Kelly Gabron and a collage of images, text, and voices in order to fabricate a history in which the presence of Black women is reinserted into histories that often render them invisible.
Men Who Swallow Themselves in Mirrors
Sable Elyse Smith, 2017, 8 min
“In this eight-minute video work, we are given nonnarrative footage sutured together to form a fragmented, hallucinatory sensation. Storefronts zoom by as captured in grainy footage out of the passenger seat of a car, two unseen men undergo tactical training that involves shooting ice with handguns, and kaleidoscopic images of cops swirl in red and blue hues. The entire work migrates between a Black conceptualist dérive and an exposé on the mundane ways that violence meets the affective realms of everyday Black life.” – Sampada Aranke
Wide Open in the Shape of an Enormous Fan (work-in-progress)
Jennifer Lauren Martin, 2026, 5 min
“This16mm film is a frenetic exploration of contemporary Marseille. The soundtrack, a hyperreal fiction, is paired with the languid footage of the city, creating a sensory overload that mirrors the city itself. Foley signals beyond what is visible in each frame. A handheld POV leads us through these public and private spaces. The title adapts the opening lines of Claude McKay’s 1929 novel Romance in Marseille.” – Jennifer Lauren Martin
Cette Maison
Miryam Charles, 2022, 75 min
“Cette Maison weaves documentary and reenactment into a luminous meditation on loss. Inspired by the life of Charles’ late cousin, the film reimagines her as Tessa, eternally on the threshold between life and afterlife. Moving between Montreal, Quebec, and imagined visions of Haiti, the film follows Tessa and her mother across spaces that blur memory, theatre, and dream. Through incantatory voiceover and ornate imagery, Charles conjures a ghost story that is also a reflection on mourning, inheritance, and the afterlives of colonial violence.” – Union Docs
Book Tickets Thu 16 Apr 20:30 GP Surgery and Never Watching Movies present: Alma’s Rainbow (1994)+ A Look to Kill
GP Surgery is a film collective founded by Jaison Washington (he/they) who is an independent film curator, archivist at LUX Moving Image, researcher, and filmmaker based in London. GP Surgery specialises in Experimental Film and Artist Moving Image as a means of catharsis, healing, and challenging our audience.
Join GP Surgery and Never Watching Movies in The Atrium Bar for a special screening exploring Black experiences of finding self-confidence, joy and how fashion links to affirming identity.
The main film of the evening, shown digitally courtesy of T A P E Collective, is African-American Director Ayoka "Ayo" Chenzira’s 1994 film “Alma’s Rainbow”, A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn. The film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies.
We will also be screening a rarely seen short experimental film “A Look to Kill” (1997) Directed by Obinna Nwosu on a 16mm film print courtesy of the LUX Moving Image Archive and joined by Film Projectionist John Wilders. This short 90’s comedy follows a fashionable man waiting at a south London bus stop for the arrival of his current romantic interest. His style goes hand in hand with his attitude that he has a “look to kill”. The film highlights music, dynamic colour, and the role fashion plays in identity and confidence.
Open City Doc: Industry Roundtable
This session of networking roundtables is designed to help filmmakers and other film professionals connect with industry experts from partner organisations such as FLAMIN, T A P E Collective, the New Black Film Collective and the British Council.
The Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) was launched in 2005 as a one-stop resource to provide artists working in the moving image with access to funding, guidance and development opportunities.
T A P E Collective is a London-based, female-led grassroots organization founded in 2015 by Angela Moneke and Isra Al Kassi to champion underrepresented films, focusing on identity, heritage, and stories from the diaspora. They work across film curation, exhibition, production, and distribution. They are particularly interested in providing advice for short film makers during this session.
ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU followed by Q&A with Kholoud al-Ajarma
Hebden Bridge Film Festival Events co-presented by Halifax Friends of Palestine
After a Palestinian teen gets swept up in a West Bank protest in the first Intifada, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle. An epic story spanning three generations of a Palestinian family; from the surge of violence during the 1948 Nakba, the new status quo in the West Bank and the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987, to the near present of 2022. Cherien Dabis weaves complex character studies, shrouding a series of catastrophic conflicts within the bounds of family. Love and hope emerge as the best defence against inhumanity and dehumanisation.
Film Club: Lingua Franca curated by Girls on Tops
Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga's adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card.
Curated by Girls on Tops
Sudan, Remember Us + Poetry and In Conversation
Standing in front of a powerful army, how could the civilian movement find the strength to persist? In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism. Art, music and poetry bolster every stage of the Sudanese fight for freedom. Sudan, Remember Us bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance.
Join us for a screening, followed by recitations by two of the poets, Kreem Aldinn Alnoor and Khatab Ahmed, whose journeys are chronicled in Sudan, Remember Us. The afternoon will conclude with an in-conversation between filmmaker Leena Habiballa and activist Alaa Salah, reflecting on the making of the film and on the role of poetry, memory and collective resistance in Sudan’s ongoing struggle for freedom.
Doors open at 1.30pm; event starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm.
I'm Migrant: Sudan, Remember Us
The ongoing civil war and genocide in Sudan is tragically underrepresented in the mainstream. These two films give us very different pictures from unique perspectives of an unfolding catastrophe in Sudan.
Featuring:
Sudan, Remember Us (Dir. Hind Meddeb)
‘Sudan, Remember Us’ bears witness to a lost revolution and within it unearths a tribute to the power of creativity as a tool of survival and resistance. In 2019, documentary filmmaker Hind Meddab flew to Sudan to film a sit-in protest at the Army headquarters in Khartoum. The people of Sudan were assembling, demanding reform after decades of military dictatorship. There she met a selection of young activists that she would continue to film over the course of 4 years, from the swell of hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al-Bashir’s fall to the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, which today, leaves Sudan in ruins. In conversations, in demonstrations, on walls, it emerges how the Sudanese tradition for poetry becomes a powerful tool for activism.
Nothing Happens After That (Dir. Ibrahim Omar)
In a diligent attempt, Thomas seeks to find a final resting place for their only child, but he is surprised that today is not the right day to do so.
I’m Migrant Film Festival is a month-long programme of screenings and events bringing together established filmmakers from across the SWANA Region alongside emerging filmmakers from the Arab World and platforming the most promising new talent from young directors.
PREVIEW: ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
In Conversation with Cherien Dabis director of All That’s Left of You
Join us for a special in-conversation with Cherien Dabis, Palestinian American writer, director and star of Oscar Best International Feature shortlisted film, All That’s Left of You. Cherien will discuss her deeply moving story of Palestinian life, love and intergenerational memory shaped by occupation, displacement and resilience, and how her life experiences are reflected in her filmmaking career.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU PREVIEW + Q&A
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
I'm Migrant: Bye Bye Tiberias + Shorts
Echoes of a Distant Home - Stories of Longing and Identity
In this screening programme, we bring together filmmakers who explore the feeling of identity in the transience created by migration and exile that leaves us balancing the home we lost and the home we created.
Featuring:
Lost In Time (Dir. Maryam Hassanein)
A docu-fiction follows 2 young Egyptian women’s journeys exploring past memories from the 60s-80s through archival home videos, audio recordings, and recreation of movie scenes.
Liminal (Dir. Reem Maghrib)
Inspired by an oral history collection that includes interviews with Syrians living in different cities in western Asia and western Europe, Liminal is a short animated film that reflects on the impact of conflict and migration on Syrian identity.
Bladi | My Country (Dir. Leila Gamaz)
Drawing on family lived experience of destitution and sleeping on the underground in 80s Paris, Bladi - My Country uses the train as a vehicle to explore how displacement feels as an embodied experience across generations. Personal and public archives are pieced together, blurring linear timeframes that speak to the haziness of memory and ongoing colonial subjugation of people we see around the world today.
In Three Layers of Darkness (Dir. Houcem Slouli)
The film follows Ghassen, a young Tunisian man, in his quest to obtain a visa, addressing the themes of immigration and perseverance against bureaucratic injustice for a fundamental right: freely moving in this world.
Bye Bye Tiberias (Dir. Lina Soualem)
Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds, despite exile, dispossession and heartbreak.
I’m Migrant Film Festival is a month-long programme of screenings and events bringing together established filmmakers from across the SWANA Region alongside emerging filmmakers from the Arab World and platforming the most promising new talent from young directors.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU PREVIEW + Q&A
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
Crystal Palace Friends of Palestine presents All That's Left of You + Q&A
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU + Q&A
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU + Q&A
Director Cherien Dabis joins us to talk about her powerful drama depicting the generational trauma of occupied Palestine spanning 75 years.
Woman with a Movie Camera Summit 2026
An annual event, the summit programme is formed by over 20 events exploring film and television, focused on lending female and non-binary voices a chance to speak about the issues facing them in today’s workplace and culture.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU PREVIEW
Cherien Dabis’ powerful, sprawling drama depicts three generations’ experience of occupied Palestine.
In cinemas 6th February.
Palestine Cinema Days: Bye Bye Tiberias
A special screening of Bye Bye Tiberias, followed by a discussion with Hekayyatna. This event is a part of Palestine Cinema Days 2025.
30 years ago, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass left her native village Deir Hanna in Galilee to follow her acting dream in France. Camera in hand, her daughter Lina questions her mother’s bold choices and the way the women in her family – who she has left behind – have influenced her life. How do those who live on the screen of our memories define who we are today?
Milk Tea Presents: Can I Get A Witness?
A community screening for climate action of Can I Get a Witness? starring the phenomenal Sandra Oh, written & directed by Ann Marie Fleming.
Come for an eco-drama that reimagines life in a post-climate world and the price of living in true harmony with the planet and stay for a climate positive themed activity TBA.
13:45: Doors open
14:00: Intro, film
14:05: Film starts
16:00: Film ends, Q&A starts
16:30: Q&A ends, audience activities (TBC)
17:30: Event ends
Hosted by ESEA Creatives Scotland with MilkTea.
Can I Get A Witness? is distributed by T A P E in the UK and playing as part of MilkTea’s Supersize, a project supported by the BFI with funding from the National Lottery.