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Amirah Tajdin

Amirah Tajdin is a Kenyan artist and filmmaker. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in South Africa and Goucher College Maryland (USA). Over a ten year period of film-making she has crafted a signature style of blending reality with fiction through her strong visual language in both her commercial and cinematic work. This has seen her helm campaigns for b…

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Fluorescent Sin

Fluorescent Sin · 2011

Fluorescent Sin

A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.

Train Station

Train Station · 2015

MovieDramaComedy

When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a different scenario, each one filmed by a different director with a different cast.

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real · 2021

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.

Minerva's Lilies

Minerva's Lilies · 2016

Minerva's Lilies

MovieDocumentary

A meditation on femininity and the magic of being a woman, a girl, a daughter. Minerva's Lilies centres on two sisters, Leah and Nayomi aged, 9 and 10 as they go through the motions of 'being girls'. The visual meditation forms the experience of not only the girls' little world of magic but that of the viewer and their mother who is carefully perched around their dreamlike atmosphere.

Land Tides

Land Tides · 2015

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

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Fluorescent Sin

Fluorescent Sin · 2011

Fluorescent Sin

A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.

Director

Train Station

Train Station · 2015

MovieDramaComedy

When a mysterious train accident forces a man to change his plans, he is confronted with a series of choices. Each decision he makes leads to a different scenario, each one filmed by a different director with a different cast.

Director

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real · 2021

Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real

The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.

Director

Minerva's Lilies

Minerva's Lilies · 2016

Minerva's Lilies

MovieDocumentary

A meditation on femininity and the magic of being a woman, a girl, a daughter. Minerva's Lilies centres on two sisters, Leah and Nayomi aged, 9 and 10 as they go through the motions of 'being girls'. The visual meditation forms the experience of not only the girls' little world of magic but that of the viewer and their mother who is carefully perched around their dreamlike atmosphere.

Director

Land Tides

Land Tides · 2015

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

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