Proxima Competition 2023 / In Camera / United Kingdom 2023
20-something Aden has no other ambition in life than to become an actor. Most of his time is spent making videos as he applies for roles he’ll never get. After a string of dreadful auditions, where bizarre and humiliating requests are made of him, he comes up with a radical move: he will take full responsibility for finding a role that primarily he, himself, wants to play. This self-assured debut, playful in form and narrative with a fairy-tale edge to it, examines both the commercial work ethic and the concept of identity, which it presents as multilayered and also questionable. At the same time, in its exploration of the given themes, the film doesn’t deny itself a socio-critical tone, nor does it resist the temptation to tease the viewer a little.
Sandra Hezinová
96 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Naqqash Khalid
/ Screenplay Naqqash Khalid
/ Dir. of Photography Tasha Back
/ Music Clark
/ Sound Paul Davies
/ Editor Ricardo Saraiva
/ Art Director Guy Thompson
/ Producer Juliette Larthe, Mary Burke
/ Production Prettybird Ltd, Public Dreams Ltd
/ Coproduction Uncommon Creative Studio
/ Cast Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry, Rory Fleck Byrne
/ Sales Together Films
/ Contact Alex Rowley, Bridie Hinson
Naqqash Khalid (1993, Manchester). Filmography: Stock (2019, short), In Camera (2022).
Together Films
Somerset House, WC2R 1LA, London
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
Naqqash Khalid
Film Director
Nabhaan Rizwan
Actor
Juliette Larthe
Producer
Amir El-Masry
Actor
Mary Burke
Producer
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