One year after the remarkable act of community solidarity and resistance on Kenmure Street, Glasgow Short Film Festival presents a film portrait of anti-deportation campaigner Muhammad Idrish.  Adam Lewis-Jacob’s Idrish tells the story of one man’s fight to remain in the UK in the 1980s and the trade union campaign that supported him.

Idrish came to England from Bangladesh in 1976 to train at Bristol Polytechnic. He went on to marry and apply to stay in the UK, but following the dissolution of his marriage, he was faced with deportation.

Idrish acts as an urgent and potent piece of anti-deportation activism. With reports of deportation flights regularly in the news, the film is rich with resonance to our current moment. In one striking sequence, footage of a protest march gives way to staccato editing and propulsive sound design by Claude Nouk, who re-uses and manipulates archival sounds to transform the film into a powerful rallying cry. Radically reanimating the documentary form, Lewis Jacob enlivens the archive to tell a vital history. – Alice Miller.

The film will be followed by an extended Q&A with Muhammad Idrish, filmmaker Adam Lewis-Jacob and sound designer Claude Nouk. 

Recommended for ages 12+. The film will be captioned for D/deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and the Q&A will be BSL interpreted.

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