About this Event
Screening: Kamli
Join us for a special in-person screening of Kamli, followed by a Q&A with acclaimed director Sarmad Khoosat, as part of Unspoken: The UK South Asian Mental Health Film Festival.
Kamli is a romantic musical and psychological drama centred on Hina, a quiet and lonely woman who has spent eight years waiting for her missing husband to return. Living an unfulfilled life with her blind and overprotective sister-in-law, Sakina, Hina’s world begins to change when she meets Amaltaas, a mysterious wanderer who develops feelings for her.
What follows is an intense and forbidden romance, as Hina is torn between the possibility of new love and her loyalty to Sakina and her absent husband.
Running alongside Hina’s story is Zeenat, a frustrated painter struggling with her marriage and alcohol. Hina becomes her muse, inspiring not only her art but also drawing Zeenat into a complex journey in which she becomes, at once, a reluctant villain and a selfless saviour.
A haunting exploration of loneliness, desire, emotional confinement, relationships and inner conflict, Kamli is a powerful addition to Unspoken’s programme of films opening conversations around mental health and experiences that are too often left unspoken.
Unspoken: The UK South Asian Mental Health Film Festival is an initiative by Tongues on Fire CIO, in partnership with mental health organisations Psychiatry Research Trust, Concern for Mental Health, and the Centre of Applied Research and Evaluation International Foundation (CAREIF).
Come for the film, stay for the conversation, and be part of a space where cinema helps us speak about what so often remains unspoken.
Event venue & nearby stays
Courthouse Hotel, 9-21 Great Marlborough St, London, United Kingdom
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