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Upshot + Screentalk with Mohammad Bakri (via Zoom) (15*)

SAFAR Film Festival

Upshot

Following a screening of the award-winning Palestinian short film Upshot, film curator and producer Elhum Shakerifar will host an in-depth conversation with cinematic legend Mohammad Bakri.

SAFAR Film Festival is honoured to host Mohammad Bakri in this special event exploring his career both in front of and behind the camera. 

From his distinct, enigmatic role in Hanna K. by Costa Gavras in 1983, to his most recent feature, Cherian Dabis All That’s Left of You (2025) alongside his sons Adam and Saleh, Mohammad Bakri’s expressive face has defined over fifty years of screen culture from and about Palestine. 

A director himself, he has also staged several theatre plays and created impactful documentaries about his home country, preserving the stories of Palestinian elders displaced by the Nakba in 1948 (1998), and of survivors of the 2002 Jenin massacres in Jenin Jenin (2002), among others. 

The award-winning short film Upshot (2024) by Maha Haj, one of the latest films in which Bakri has starred, will precede the conversation. 

This event is presented in partnership with the Tarwida Podcast.

Audiences also have the chance to watch Bakri’s documentary Jenin, Jenin + Q&A on Saturday 14 June, book tickets here.

Please note: this ScreenTalk will now be held on Zoom.

About the film

Upshot

ما بعد...

Upshot sees Bakri and costar Areen Omari as a reclusive couple, haunted by unspeakable loss, who have retreated from the world, seeking refuge in the embrace of nature. But when their isolation is disturbed by an uninvited visitor, intruding upon their sanctuary and wielding the blunt force of truth, the fragile illusion they have constructed begins to unravel.

Palestine, Italy, France, 2024, dir Maha Haj, 34 min

Cinema 1

Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

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Silk Street, London
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