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SFP8 Grant winners push the boundaries
of contemporary filmmaking
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Sharjah Art Foundation
is pleased to announce the winners of the eighth
edition of Sharjah Film Platform (SFP) Short Film
Production Grant. Open to all independent
filmmakers, the grant supports the completion of
short films that push the boundaries of contemporary
filmmaking.
The winning recipients will
share a total of 120,000 AED. The films will
premiere at a future edition of SFP, the
Foundation’s annual festival celebrating independent
cinema and moving image.
The awardees are
CounterArchive Collective, Rajan Kathet and Nadeem
Alkarimi for We Return in Pieces, Oxygen and Mila in
The Mountains, respectively.
Selected from
an open call, this year’s awardees demonstrate a
compelling range of cinematic approaches, from
historical speculation, intimate storytelling to
socially engaged narratives.
CounterArchive Collective’s We Return in Pieces
A collaboratively developed work reimagining
the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960), the film draws on
British colonial archives and personal memory to
produce counter-narratives to canonised histories.
Through speculative reenactments and imagined
dialogues, it foregrounds filmmaking as a form of
resistance, remembrance and repair.
Rajan
Kathet’s Oxygen
In this quietly powerful
narrative, a son and his father embark on a journey
to return a malfunctioning oxygen concentrator. What
begins as a simple errand unfolds into a nuanced
exploration of generational conflict, love and
struggle—both emotional and physical—in a
suffocating world.
Nadeem Alkarimi’s Mila
in The Mountains
Set in the Hunza Valley, the film follows Noman as he forms a deep bond with Mila, a husky, while his nation simmers with frustration. Beneath Pakistan’s beauty
lies a broken system: corruption, violence and
injustice prevail. When Mila is murdered, no one is
held accountable. The mountains bear witness, but
will anything ever change?
For more
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