SAMRA
ŠABANOVIĆ
FOOTNOTES ON AN ARRANGED MEETING
directed by Zahrah Ehsan
11’ / production 2023
English and Urdu
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Role:
Art Director​
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"Footnotes on An Arranged Meeting" is a short film about Daneen, a Pakistani woman artist based in Finland who navigates through a meeting with Ifran, an engineer from Pakistan who also lives in Finland for a potential arranged marriage.
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Screenings:
Bio Rex - November 2022
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WHEN WERE YOU BORN?​
directed by Libbie Katsev
12’ / production 2022
English and Russian
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Role:
Assistant Director and Production Assistant
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In a world where astrology is more institutionally accepted, a student filmmaker visits her father’s hometown in Russia to learn the time of his birth and finally complete his astrological chart. She is guided by a local astrological researcher, who has her own agenda.
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Official selection:​
Helsinki Film Festival - National Competition
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GlLITCH-RECON(NAISSANCE)
directed by Vishnu Rajan
7'50''/ production 2022
English
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Roles:
Director of Photography​
Assistant Director
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A Cyberpunk Cyborg superhero descends to teach glitch to a commoner in Oceania, a city built-in 1984. Glitch is a technology that erases the ever-encroaching pervasive surveillance apparatus. Can the commoner find stealth, eros and liberation using Glitch in time, changing the very nature of deep surveillance?
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Screenings:
Myymala2 Gallery
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