Creative Film Nights: Sprout | Why is my Grandfather’s Bed in our Living Room?

Another season of Emirati and Korean short films starts. The programme:

• Why is my Grandfather’s Bed in our Living Room? dir Sarah Alhashimi (2021: 7 mins)

An Emirati family recalls the loss of their ancestral house to urban modernisation; it becomes apparent that an old wooden bed, the only tangible memory that remains, is a poignant feature of their story. Sarah Alhashimi’s short documentary weaves the house and the bed together in the family’s bittersweet memories …

• Sprout dir  Yoon Ga-eun (2013: 20 mins)

Every year little Bo-ri’s family come together to commemorate her late grandfather. Bo-ri is sent to the market for beansprouts, but an unexpected detour takes her to places she has never seen before. She encounters all kinds of people, learns new things and eventually meets a friendly gentleman who could even be her grandfather …