Archive of films In Camera / In Camera

United Kingdom
2023, 96 min

Section: Proxima Competition
Year: 2023

Synopsis

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

About the director

Naqqash Khalid (1993, Manchester). Filmography: Stock (2019, short), In Camera (2022).

Contacts

Together Films
Somerset House, WC2R 1LA, London
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

Publicity contact

Alex Rowley
E-mail: [email protected]

Bridie Hinson
E-mail: [email protected]

About the film

Color, DCP
World premiere

Section:	Proxima Competition

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

Guests

Naqqash Khalid

Film Director

Nabhaan Rizwan

Actor

Juliette Larthe

Producer

Amir El-Masry

Actor

Mary Burke

Producer