About this Event
Echoes of What Remains brings together six films about the traces people and moments leave behind. In 1981 suburban Long Island, 14 year old Douglas receives a birthday surprise that changes everything, in a psychedelic coming of age story about the beauty and terror of teenage desire. Kobika drifts between memory and abstraction, a meditation on embodiment and loss where healing begins in the act of remembering. On a sunny morning, a woman frames an inevitable farewell with photographs and a pair of sunglasses. A semi autobiographical drama follows identical twins Omar and Wesam, and the emotional toll of living on after one of them dies. In Southern China, taxi driver Chen Hai picks up two strange passengers and realises his life has quietly reset, leaving him to choose between the afterlife and a ghostly existence. And from Oscar nominated filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab, co-directed by Wafa Mustafa, comes Wafa's search for the truth about her father, forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime in 2013.
Agenda
🕑: 04:30 PM - 04:35 PM
INTRO
Info: Introduction by a member of the PRIFF team.
🕑: 04:35 PM - 04:42 PM
1981 (Animation Short Film) dir. by Carolyn London & Andy London
Info: t's 1981 in suburban Long Island, New York. The mullets are long, the metal is heavy and 14-year old Douglas gets a birthday surprise that will change life forever. "1981" is a psychedelic coming-of-age story that captures the beauty and terror of teenage desire.
🕑: 04:42 PM - 04:51 PM
Kobika (Short Film) dir. by Nadia Otshudi
Info: “Kobika” drifts between memory and abstraction, moving through images that breathe more than they explain. Guided by voice and silence, it listens to the spaces between gestures. Where echoes, movement, and fragments of sound speak what words cannot. Through its shifting textures, the film reveals how pain and tenderness can coexist, how healing begins in the act of remembering. “Kobika” unfolds like a whispered ritual. A meditation on embodiment and loss, where silence becomes both witness and release, for those still learning to listen.
🕑: 04:51 PM - 05:04 PM
Sunglasses (Short Film) dir. by Esteban Villagomez16:51
Info: A sunny morning marks an inevitable farewell. She frames their goodbye with some photos and a pair of sunglasses as a symbol of love.
🕑: 05:04 PM - 05:19 PM
My Brother, My Brother (Short Film) dir. by Abdelrahman Dnewar, Saad Dnewar
Info: A semi-biographical autofictional drama about identical twins Omar and Wesam, shared memories, dreams, separation and the emotional toll of living after the death of one twin.
🕑: 05:19 PM - 05:32 PM
After Closure (Short Film) dir. by Shiyi Zhang
Info: On sultry summer nights in Southern China, taxis run only after dark, endlessly traversing between hazy destinations, seemingly unaware of their fate.
🕑: 05:32 PM - 06:12 PM
Maybe Tomorrow (Documentary Feature Film) dir. by Waad Al-Kateab, Wafa Mustafa
Info: From Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab, comes an intimate and powerful story of one woman's search for truth. Co-directed by Wafa Mustafa, the film follows Wafa's extraordinary personal journey as she tries to uncover the fate of her father, forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime in 2013.
🕑: 06:12 PM - 06:22 PM
Q&A
Info: Q&A TBC
Event venue & nearby stays
Lumiere Cinema, Romford, United Kingdom
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