Amirah Tajdin

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.

Embroidery For A Long Song

A neon inspired meditation on female energy re-imagined through the intricate histories of the Gulf region as told through music, fashion and poetry. The film features a 'Khaleeji' ten piece band of folk singers who spread their music through a Futuristic space while a poetess who grapples with her modern female identity as an Arab woman, chases their sounds and discovers her traditional self as well as the troupe of women rooted comfortably in their old world identity. The film is a collaboration between fashion designer Faissal El Malak who conceptualized it and filmmaker and artist Amirah Tajdin who directed it.

Minerva's Lilies

A meditation on femininity and the magic of being a woman, a girl, a daughter. Minerva's Lilies centres on two sisters, Leah and Nayomi aged, 9 and 10 as they go through the motions of 'being girls'. The visual meditation forms the experience of not only the girls' little world of magic but that of the viewer and their mother who is carefully perched around their dreamlike atmosphere.

Train Station

When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a different scenario, each one filmed by a different director with a different cast.

Land Tides

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

Land Tides

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

Fluorescent Sin

A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.