REFUGE - SHORT FILM
Set against the backdrop of rural Britain, two cousins Assem and Nadim, navigate their precarious existence in a makeshift campsite as they try to come to grips with a new country, and a society that does not fully welcome them.
World Premiere at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh 2025
Selected for Bolton Film Festival 2025
Semi Finalist at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2025
Starring | Ahmad Albayati, Belal Stitan
Writer & Directors | David Winn & Sam Assahli
Producer | Alice Raymond
Director of Photography | 🙋🏻
1st AC | Jamie Oliver Lai
Gaffer | Kristof Szentgyörgyváry
Spark | Robert Bogdan-Roth
Spark | Sami Hussein
Composer | Maz Iannone
Sound Recordist | Oscar Perez Pelaez
1st Assistant Sound | Max Francis Hayes
Colourist | Daniel Levy
Colour Producer | Jai Mhach Durban
Executive Producers | Adam Assahli, Ahmed Assahli, Sami Assahli, Fiona McGrath, Annermarie O’Hara, David Winn
Cam: Arri Amira
Glass: Iron Glass MKI
