17—20 OCTOBER 2024



SRFF 2024: DOUBLE BILL — PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE 

 
 

Online overture
October 11–20
︎ Grand Union website, Birmingham

ONE’S CONNECTION IS ANOTHER’S DIVISION: COLONIAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN SOUTH CAUCASUS AND PALESTINЕ︎ 

37 mins

SEBASTIA DISAGREEMENT (2023) dir. Yiru Qian (15 mins)
A PASSAGE (2019) dir. Felix Kalmenson & Rouzbeh Akhbari (22 mins)

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Opening night
Thursday, October 17
︎ 18:00-21:00
︎ Screen 3 at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry 

QUEER ARCHIVES AND REENACTMENTS IN LEBANON AND BRAZIL + Q&A︎

 
NEO NAHDA (2023) dir. May Ziadé (12 mins)
CASA IZABEL (2022) dir. Gil Baroni (85 mins)

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Friday, October 18
︎ 18:00-20:40
︎ Coventry Transport Museum

RAILROADS AND COLONIAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN SOUTH CAUCASUS AND IRAN + Q&A︎


A STATE IN A STATE (2022) dir. Tekla Aslanishvili (46 mins)
SCENES OF EXTRACTION (2023) dir. Sanaz Sohrabi (43 mins)

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Saturday, October 19
︎ 14:00-17:00
︎ Cinema at MAC Birmingham

PALESTINIAN-UKRAINIAN SOLIDARITY SCREENING 1: COLLECTING STORIES, PRESERVING CULTURE + Q&A︎



DANCING PALESTINE (2024) dir. Lamees Almakkawy (37 mins)
WEIGHTLESS (2023) dir. Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas (70 mins)
+ Q&A (60 mins)
+ after-screening reception (17:00-18:00)

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Saturday, October 19
︎ 18:00-21:00
︎ Cinema at MAC Birmingham

PALESTINIAN-UKRAINIAN SOLIDARITY SCREENING 2: SCRUTINISING THE ENEMY + Q&A︎


PARADISO, XXXI, 108 (2022) dir. Kamal Aljafari (18 mins)
INTERCEPTED (2024) dir. Oksana Karpovych (95 mins)
+ Q&A (60 mins)
+ pre-screening reception (17:00-18:00)

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Sunday, October 20
︎ 14:00-17:00
︎ Theatre at MAC Birmingham

GENOCIDE, DISPLACEMENT, AND FAMILY HISTORIES IN ETHIOPIA AND ARMENIA + Q&A︎


THE MEDALLION (2023) dir. Ruth Hunduma (19 mins)
1489 (2023) dir. Shoghakat Vardanyan (76 mins)

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Closing night
Sunday, October 20

︎ 18:00-20:30
︎ Theatre at MAC Birmingham

KORYO-SARAM AND CHINESE LIVERPUDLIANS: STORIES OF EAST ASIAN FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN THE USSR AND THE UK + Q&A︎


THE UNDESIRABLES (2022) dir. Hester Yang (19 mins)
THREE BORDERS (2017) dir. Alisa Berger (55 mins) 

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