Collective Summoning

Three films about ritual, myth and national history from Palestine, Thailand and Iran.

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Linking struggles across time and space, the works in this programme cultivate continuities and assert cross-temporal solidarities, attained in part through speculative inquiry, reactivation and ritual.

Erik Martinson

A Night We Held Between

  • Director-screenwriter

    Noor Abed

  • Palestine 2024. 30min

  • Language

    Arabic
    With English subtitles

Myth, ritual and longing at Palestinian sites intertwine with archival songs and photos. Landscape holds cavernous memory, grief, and strength.

No Exorcism Film

  • Director-screenwriter

    Komtouch Napattaloong

  • Thailand 2024. 20min

  • Languages

    English, Thai
    With English and Thai subtitles

Fleeting anxious images encounter vibrant resiliency in Thailand. A dialogue between unseen enigmatic entities considers reality’s construction and cosmological entanglements.

Razeh-del

  • Director-screenwriter

    Maryam Tafakory

  • Iran, UK, Italy 2024. 28min

  • Languages

    Farsi
    With English subtitles

In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.

Content warning

This presentation contains flashing images.

Programme amendment

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously advertised film Garanti 100% Kreol is no longer screening as part of LFF 2024. We apologise for any disappointment and/or confusion.

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