A double bill of sci-fi film from Palestinian director Larissa Sansour, with Søren Lind, featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning and inherited trauma, followed by a personal and experimental documentary shot in a derelict mansion inspired by Sansour’s own family past.

This screening includes a Q&A with Sabrin Hasbun and Ali Roche, producer of As if no misfortune had occurred in the night.

Sabrin Hasbun

Sabrin Hasbun is an Italian-Palestinian writer, translator and academic. She obtained her PhD in creative writing and history at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities and currently lectures on creative writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University, specialising in writing for and by marginalised groups. She has worked for a variety of institutions including the Holburne Museum in Bath, the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See and the international journal Transnational Literature.

Ali Roche

Ali Roche is a film producer for Familiar Phantoms and In Vitro amongst other works. Ali has worked as Producer at Spike Island (Bristol) since 2013, producing many critically-acclaimed moving image commissions with local, national and international partners. She is now Head of Commissions at Spike Island and she continues to develop, produce and project manage major moving image productions for a broad range of international artists and organisations.