This is a closed community event* 

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are independent filmmakers and codesigners of Other Cinemas – a community cinema and school in London’s Kilburn Neighbourhood. We were lucky enough to share their work And Still it Remains in our Autumn edition of Harvest Festival last year. 

This year they join us across both editions exploring alongside us the theme of a politics of listening. 

As part of their exchange with us they are offering DIY filmmaking workshops to youth in both Al Haouz and Dar Bellarj working with accessible tools such as the phone. 

The idea is to have both groups eventually exchange each other’s films, with each group getting to experience through viewing eachothers films, a day in the life of both of their environments.

Other Cinemas is a Brent-based project established by the filmmaking duo Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa who saw the need for better and more equitable ways of film-making, sharing, and education. Seeing these three strands as inseparable, our work attempts to create a vital and holistic alternative to the industry that addresses its racial and class biases. Their work is rooted in our diverse neighbourhoods in northwest London, some of the most racially diverse in the country but chronically underserved in terms of cultural provisions.

17 May