Migrant Cinema - A Journey Through Time - London Migration Film Festival
Running time: 55 mins
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Release Date: 03/12/2025
This special LMFF event marks ten years of migrant cinema by looking not only at what has been represented, but at what can now be imagined. Opening with a short reflection on how migrant cinema has shifted over the last decade, the programme brings together four films that move beyond crisis narratives into speculative, dream-like and ancestral registers. Through fantasy, parable, transcendence and ritual, these works imagine other ways of being, belonging and moving through the world. The screening is followed by a panel conversation reflecting on how migrant filmmaking has evolved, what border-abolitionist and decolonial futures might look like on screen, and how cinema can help reimagine migration beyond the limits of the nation-state.
About the festival:
The London Migration Film Festival, which is holding its 10th annual edition from 27 November-3 December 2025, aims to challenge the narrow rhetoric on migration that often sees migration, and people on the move, framed in reductive and dehumanising binaries.
