Memories of earth 01

UK Competition: Memories of the Earth (+ filmmakers Q&A)

Start Time:
27th Jan 20:45
Location:
BFI Southbank
Runtime:
92 min
Program:
New Shorts

In this UK Competition selection, the land hums with recollections of the soil and water, its transience and traditions.

Childhood rituals crack open old traumas. Diasporic currents flow between Jamaican and British rivers. An overturned car transforms into myth. A mining operation bows to a monstrous creature. Office walls echo with misogynoir. And a man pursues a horse's skull to fulfil an ancient folk rite.

Featuring the latest from Naqqash Khalid (In Camera), Teva Cheema (Highgate 214, Best UK Short Film at LSFF 2024) and Rachel Maclean's Too Happy Studios.

The attending filmmakers will join us for a Q&A after the screening. 

Contains scenes of self-harm, racist violence and graphic violence or injury, and themes of drug use.

Programmed by LSFF Selection Committee.