Dreams and Apparitions: Shorts (Jali Film Weekender)

This shorts programme invites us into liminal spaces and shifting memories. From Kenya to Haiti, and Rwanda to the UK, these six films explore the complexities of grief and the weight of conflict, while also confronting the dislocations of exile and displacement in the African and diasporic experience. Presented in narrative, documentary, animation and experimental form, they remind us of the ways in which memory lingers, resurfaces, and shapes how we see ourselves and one another. Within these stories, the borders between the past and present, the real and imagined, the seen and unseen, are never fixed. They reflect on how histories of struggle and survival shape belonging, and how dreams and apparitions can guide us towards alternate futures. <i>Inheritance</i> (dir. Barbara Minishi, Kenya, 2023, Swahili & Kamba with English subtitles, 11 m) <i>Scottish Premiere</i> A chance meeting between an alienated young woman and the village outlier leads to an extraordinary meeting with her dead grandfather. <i>Ibuka, Justice</i> (dir. Justice Rutikara, Canada, 2024, English, 23m) <i>UK Premiere</i> In the early days of April 1994, Valentine and Jean-Claude, two young parents, begin a new life in Kigali with their newborn baby. Their country, already flayed by racial propaganda and brutality, seems ready at last to experience the peace and justice the couple had hoped for. <i>Is It War?</i> (dir. Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Sudan, 2025, Arabic with English subtitles, 6m) Scottish Premiere When Jafar is detached from his soul in a surreal journey through a forest, he must mentally escape the brutal truths of his homeland's conflict in Sudan and the horrors of war and displacement, before it destroys his mind. <i>Blue Heart (Coeur Bleu)</i> (dir. Samuel Suffren, Haiti, 2025, Haitian Creole with English subtitles, 15m) <i>Scottish Premiere</i> Their loving son is away. Marianne and Petion are living in Haiti with a telephone, waiting for a call from the USA, where their son has left for the American dream. <i>My Brother, My Brother</i> (dir. Saad Dnewar & Abdelrahman Dnewar, Egypt, 2025, Arabic with English subtitles, 15m) <i>Scottish Premiere</i> The complexities of a past shared by two identical twins: Omar and Wesam. A split narrative retells the two sides of their memories – from the instant they were fused together in their mother’s womb to the moment they are parted by the tragic death of one of them. <i>Journey Mercies</i> (dir. Tomisin Adepeju, UK, 2023, English, 15m) <i>Scottish Premiere</i> It's Bade's last day at work. He’s finally ready to go home.PT1H25M152025-11-02
Barbara Minishi (<i>Inheritance</i>); Justice Rutikara (<i>Ibuka
Justice</i>); Timeea Mohamed Ahmed (<i>Is It War?</i>); Samuel Suffren (<i>Blue Heart (Coeur Bleu)</i>); Saad Dnewar & Abdelrahman Dnewar (<i>My Brother
My Brother</i>); Tomisin Adepeju (<i>Journey Mercies</i>)
Dreams and Apparitions: Shorts (Jali Film Weekender)"Dreams and Apparitions: Shorts (Jali Film Weekender)"

Showtimes

November 2, 6:00 pm

Filmhouse Cinema