"I was that kid at school who was into strange songs and odd singers." I'm always so thankful for the power of cinema to bring us stories from places I've never been to and don't know much about. Wifi Rider is one of these distinct stories, about a young Palestinian fashion designer named Shukri, spending most of his time online. "What he desperately wants is to connect with others like him, who feel caught between an occupation, globalisation, and the universal growing pains that come with adulthood. In this 16mm documentary film, we follow Shukri from a childhood in East Jerusalem to moving to the hillside apartments of Amman, Jordan and the sandy shores of the Dead Sea." This originally premiered at film festivals last year and is now available to watch online. It was filmed throughout 2018 and 2019, shot on 16mm film to capture "the colour, texture and sensitivity through which Shukri sees the world." This is a really moving, really lovely short doc authentically capturing the life of young people from the Middle East. XX ›››
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