Najrin Islam curator of film programmes as part of the London Short Film Festival 2026

Congratulations to Najrin Islam, film critic and programmer, who has curated a film programme at the London Short Film Festival 2026

I have curated with the London Short Film Festival 2026. It is a film programme titled 'East London, Bangladesh & Tales of Becoming', where I will be screening some archival shorts alongside contemporary short films by Bangladeshi filmmakers. The archival shorts are actually documentary photographs taken by Paul Trevor during the Turning Point event of 1978 in East London, mobilised into short films using oral interviews by the Rainbow Collective and Four Corners archive. The contemporary shorts (by artists Munem Wasif, Sarker Protick, and Mehedi Mostafa) look at Bangladesh as a land in flux, effectively responding to the diasporic archives through the frictions caused by the legacy of British colonialism.

Najrin pursued her second M.A. in Film Programming and Curating from Birkbeck, University of London, with the support of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.

Please find more information about Najrin here and the London Short Film Festival here.