SFP Montage is a series of special projects and initiatives linked to Sharjah Arts Foundation\u2019s annual Sharjah Film Platform (SFP) festival that forges new associations among the works and expands their reach beyond Sharjah; two award-winning films from the seventh edition of SFP will be screened at NYUAD: The Screening Room on each of 3 and 4 May. Tomorrow’s films are fiction; this evening’s are both documentaries:<\/p>\n
Surveilling a Crime Scene <\/strong>dir Alana Hunt (2023, 22 min)<\/em><\/p>\n Shot on Super 8mm, this short examines the lives of non-indigenous people in Miriwoong Country, Australia, to frame colonisation as not only a historical phenomenon but also a continuous and present violence. English with Arabic subtitles<\/p>\n Coconut Head Generation<\/strong> dir Alain Kassanda (2023, 89 min: still above)<\/em><\/p>\n Every Thursday a group of students from the University of Ibadan organises a film club, transforming a small lecture hall into a political assembly. Reclaiming the expression \u2018coconut head generation’ \u2013 a derisive term for stubborn and brainless youth \u2013 the students assert their right to intellectual freedom while honing their critical voice. English, Pidgin, Yoruba and French with Arabic subtitles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"