TUESDAY 28th January | 7pm | £10 advance tickets

Sandpit Collective presents Other Asias, a film programme inspired by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s challenge to rethink "Asia" and the ethnic classification ‘Other Asian’ used in the UK to describe individuals who self-identify as Asian but do not fit within the four largest Asian ethnic categories. This programme seeks to explore the complexities of identity, and otherness, disrupting what has been under and misrepresented within mainstream narratives.

Mirrors for Princes: Within classical Arabic literature this genre served as pragmatic guidance for administrative and procedural aspects of governance while stressing the role of rulers as moral exemplars.

In our journey into Maghrebi Feminist Post-Colonial cinema we showcase the male directors that prepared the way for these female luminaries not only by examining tropes of masculinity, gender roles and identities within societal convention but also by providing opportunities for these pioneering women to gain the skills and the confidence to develop their craft.

The Sandpit Collective, in partnership with the University of Sussex, presents, 'الهائمون Les Baliseurs du Desert, Wanderers of the Desert,' by artist, poet and cineast Nacer Khemir.

In the first part of his desert trilogy, Khemir articulates a Sufi tale in a quest for roots, identity, love and freedom. Based on a poem, the film revolves around the arrival of a young teacher at a remote desert border village obsessed with a mysterious treasure. Here the children have never been to school and are cursed to eternally wander, seeking the boundaries of the limitless sand dunes. In an homage to the classical splendour of Arabian culture, magic and reality overlap.

El Haimoune, Nacer Khemir, 1984, 95 minutes, in French with English subtitles