Building Solidarity & Kinship: Short Film Screenings + Panel Discussion (Inverness)

This event is part of the Building Solidarity & Kinship programme curated by Esraa Husain at the Refugee Festival Scotland 2025.

We will feature a selection of short films followed by a panel discussion exploring the Festival’s theme Milestones and elements connected to finding refuge and belonging and the importance of community building.

After the screening, we will be joined by local creatives and community organisers in Inverness who come from migrant backgrounds to discuss the themes mentioned and share reflections.

Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £3, £5, £10. To book, click here or call the Eden Court Box Office on 01463 234 234 or email at [email protected].

Accessibility

This programme has:

• English language descriptive subtitles
• Live Captioning for the introduction and panel discussion
• Glasgow Film Theatre is a wheelchair accessible venue

This screening is 93 minutes long.

Films in this programme include:

• Mark Thomas, Permissible Beauty (2023)
• Baz Sells, Two Black Boys in Paradise (2025)
• Theo Panagopoulos, The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024)
• Adéráyọ̀, DISSONANCE (2025)

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Image Credit: Permissible Beauty, Dir. Mark Thomas, 2023