A collectively curated film screening & conversation, organised by KONTEKST Collective member Aria Danaparamita.

At a time of rising far-right violence and harsher immigration policies against people who have made the UK home, we are holding space to reflect on how borders affect our communities. In this programme, collectively curated by the filmmakers, join us as we explore films that untangle borders and have a conversation on how to cultivate more care and justice for migrants and refugees.

PROGRAMME:

Dover 82 (2025, 5 min, dir. Aria Danaparamita)

• Honouring the 82 people who lost their lives in the Channel in 2024, the film archives the sites and textures of Dover’s border architecture, confronting how borders shape our relationship to place.

Headland (2024, 13 min, dir. Mariana Duarte)

• The changing face of a pebble beach on the coast of the English Channel interweaves the age-old tradition of sea rescue with the present-day plight of migrants crossing the sea.

Notes from Brook House (2025, 28 min, dir. Alex Nevill)

• Roaming landscapes filmed in 16mm reveal physical traces of boundaries throughout the country, as people encountered while filming lend their voice to stories from an immigration detention centre.

Witness (2024, 12 min, dir. Ahmad Al Shehabi)

• An archival journey of Ahmad and his family’s harrowing escape from Syria. A decade later, they revisit those heart-wrenching snapshots, each frame echoing with indelible emotions of the past.

Doors 6:30pm