Elhum Shakerifar

Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA-nominated producer and curator with particular interest in film from the SWANA region and most recently curating for London Film Festival (2014 to 21), Shubbak – festival of contemporary Arab culture (2015 to 2019), Barbican (Poetry in Motion: Contemporary Iranian Cinema, 2019) and BFI (Drama and Desire: The Films of Youssef Chahine, 2023). A poet and translator, she also runs the London-based company Hakawati ('storyteller' in Arabic).

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Close encounters in the Atlas mountains: Sofia Alaoui on her haunting debut Animalia

Sofia Alaoui tells us about her enigmatic first feature, in which a pregnant woman’s journey across Morocco becomes a meditation on class, belonging and the mysteries of existence, as strange cosmic forces unsettle the world around her.

By Elhum Shakerifar

Close encounters in the Atlas mountains: Sofia Alaoui on her haunting debut Animalia
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