March
Raheela Suleman (b. 1996) is a London-based writer and director. Her films have screened at Tate Britain, ICA, BFI, Genesis Cinema, All Points East Festival 2018, P21 Gallery, CineAstra Film Festival, and LUX Moving Image. An alumna of Other Cinemas Film School 2023, Chisenhale Gallery, and Barbican Young Poets, she explores Islamic Existentialism, Mysticism and The Unseen in both her written and visual work. Her film, 'SABR' (2023), premiered at the London Short Film Festival 2024 and is set for a screening at ICO Spring Screening Days at BFI Southbank alongside 'the variable' (2023).
the variable is an experimental short moving through Islamic existentialism, cyclical grief and construction of the ego.
A woman performs the sacred ritual of salah, revealing the profound journey of making time meaningful in the transient spaces of life.
Watch our conversation with Raheela about her work, Islamic mysticism, film as a form of worship, and the power of the unseen.