SOAK FILM FESTIVAL
Our film festival Soak was curated by film-maker Surabhi Sharma, Assistant Professor of Practice at the Arts and Humanities Division at the New York University Abu Dhabi. We screened 7 films which closely examined the relationship communities share with water around the world. The screening was followed by a discussion with film-makers and scholars.
About the Curator
Surabhi Sharma is a filmmaker based in Abu Dhabi and Mumbai. She has worked on several feature length documentaries apart from some short fiction films and video installations. Her key concern has been documenting cities in transition through the lens of labour, music and migration, and most recently reproductive labour. Cinema verite and ethnography are the genres that inform her filmmaking. She is currently teaching in the Film and new Media Programme at New York University Abu Dhabi.