I’m Migrant: Presents is a regular programme of screenings celebrating film from the SWANA Region, platforming emerging talent alongside established filmmakers.

Two intimate Palestinian films that explore the meaning of home, memory and motherhood amid displacement and conflict. Through the eyes of mothers and children, we see how memory can be both refuge and burden, how the camera becomes a vessel for grief and for hope. These works invite us to reflect on what remains when the walls of home are no longer steady - what fragments of tenderness and resistance we carry with us wherever we go.

I’m Migrant: Presents is a regular programme of screenings celebrating film from the SWANA Region, platforming emerging talent alongside established filmmakers.

This event includes a screening of Azerbaijani director Suad Gara’s short drama Qaragh (Wake Up), followed by the UK Premiere of Mohanad Hayal’s debut feature Haifa Street. The evening concludes with a panel discussion.

After touring in the UK and Europe throughout winter 2024, the Memories Carried international campaign and touring exhibition is coming back to London for one night only, raising funds for human rights and humanitarian charities working in Palestine.

Created by Iraqi photographer and filmmaker Yamam Nabeel, Memories Carried brings together over 30 international photographers and activists, including artists from Palestine, the wider Arab Region, across Latin America, the UK and Europe, all committed to raising funds for charities on the ground in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Lebanon.

The exhibition series and campaign is a collaboration between Art Forward and Amnesty International UK, and has already raised thousands for vital causes, supporting Al Haq, Al Mezan, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, and Health Workers for Palestine.

Following major events in London, Berlin, Paris and Birmingham, the Memories Carried international campaign and touring exhibition is comes to Globe Gallery in North Shields, raising funds for human rights and humanitarian charities working in Palestine. 

Created by Iraqi photographer and filmmaker Yamam Nabeel, Memories Carried brings together over 20 international photographers and activists, including artists from Palestine, the wider Arab Region, across Latin America, the UK and Europe, all committed to raising funds for charities on the ground in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Lebanon.

The exhibition series and campaign is a collaboration between Art Forward and Amnesty International UK, and has already raised thousands for vital causes, supporting Al Haq, Al Mezan, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, and Health Workers for Palestine.

Following major events in London, Berlin and Birmingham, the Memories Carried international campaign and touring exhibition is appearing for one-night-only in Paris at Les Amarres, on the banks of the Seine.

Raising funds for grassroots human rights and humanitarian causes in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Lebanon, the Memories Carried exhibition and campaign is a collaboration between Art Forward and Amnesty International UK.

The exhibition series brings together over 20 international photographers and activists, including artists from Palestine, the wider Arab Region, across Latin America, the UK and Europe, all committed to raising funds for charities on the ground in OPT and Lebanon.

An international campaign and touring exhibition series raising funds for grassroots human rights causes in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Lebanon, launching at Birmingham’s Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage.

Following the inaugural Memories Carried exhibition at the Amnesty International’s London HQ in May 2024, Art Forward are proud to announce the expanded Memories Carried Campaign and International Touring Exhibition.

The exhibition series brings together over 20 international photographers and activists, including artists from Palestine, the wider Arab Region, across Latin America, the UK and Europe, as well as Israel, all committed to raising funds for charities on the ground in OPT and Lebanon. Exhibitions will take place in Birmingham, Newcastle, UK; Paris, France and Berlin, Germany, supporting Al Haq, Al Mezan, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, and Health Workers for Palestine.

DOCUMENT NOW: No Borders invites global photographers to share stories of migration and identity, investigating community and culture in a world of rapid globalisation. This new exhibition builds on the success and critical acclaim of DOCUMENT NOW: London, which took place in February 2024 at Bermondsey Project Space.

Each exhibition is an opportunity to share stories of the world around us, to highlight deeply personal approaches to the diverse medium of photography, and to platform the global voices who are supporting cross-cultural dialogues to flourish.

SCREENING + Q&A

“Some secrets must never be left hanging”

A couple’s strained relationship is pushed to its limits when Ali’s long estranged friend shows up to stay with them for the weekend, unsettling the already turbulent waters and bringing to the surface a long deeply buried secret.production, and starred in two short films, The Push, and Happy Birthday Jesus. Her film Ali’s Secret, screened at LiftOff Sessions Festival, and KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1981, Daoud currently lives in Cairo with her five rescues, a dog, three cats, and a tortoise whom she has named Oscar the Grouch.

Photography exhibition and print sale in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians

Memories Carried is a group photography exhibition and print sale, bringing together photographers from the Arab world and across Europe for a one-night-only fundraising event.

Each photographer has donated a selection of images, which have been produced as a series of collectable prints specially for this event, priced at £50. With each print sold, 100% of proceeds go straight to MAP UK.

I’m Migrant: Afifa Aleiby - Episode 3 of Yamam Nabeel’s multimedia project in which he pieces together his heritage through interviews, portraits and conversations with exiled Iraqi artists, writers, and intellectuals. In this a deeply personal project, Yamam shares the Iraq he missed out on, as the young son of exiled Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin, a parallel Iraq created by these artists he grew up with in Europe, through analogue film portraits and a film documentary series, as well as original artwork and installations.

SCREENING + Q&A

“Nobody was born with the dream of becoming a refugee”

The Woodman is a feature film with a thriller theme with a life size wooden dummy as the protagonist. It is a fairy tale about the outsiders in the world represented by the Woodman. This story is the reverse of the usual representation – the Woodman is now on the search of his home, chased by evil powers invisible in the film, he wants to go back to his forest, he wants to go home.

SCREENINGS + Q&A

The life of a retired man in London is interrupted when a new neighbour from Iraq moves in next door...

Tabbouleh & Pie - Richard’s life of a re'red insurance manager in London is interrupted when Fa'n, a stage director from Iraq, moves in next door. Through her vivacious and extrovert nature, she challenges Richard to connect with his less reserved self. Dir: Ja‘far ‘Abd al-Hamid

I’m Migrant: Faisel Laibi Sahi - Episode 4 of Yamam Nabeel’s multimedia project in which he pieces together his heritage through interviews, portraits and conversations with exiled Iraqi artists, writers, and intellectuals. In this a deeply personal project, Yamam shares the Iraq he missed out on, as the young son of exiled Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin, a parallel Iraq created by these artists he grew up with in Europe, through analogue film portraits and a film documentary series, as well as original artwork and installations.