TILKA is an intimate portrait of five women who meet to create a striking, collective piece of theatre amid Lebanon’s collapse. In the mountains outside Beirut, they weave together a story inspired by their experiences as women fighting against the odds for their rights. Director Myriam Geagea has described the film as "a testament to the transformative power of art and self-expression." TILKA won Best Local Documentary at the Lebanese Independent Film Festival, premiered in the UK at Cambridge Film Festival and has been selected for AWAN Festival, Beirut International Women Festival and Migration Matters Festival.
Q & A will take place after the screening with creative team member, Naqiya Ebrahim and virtually with Lama Amine.
Lama Amine is an artist, movement director, performer and activist. She holds an MA in Movement Directing and Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London. She currently works with Seenaryo as Head of Arts and has directed several plays with Seenaryo, including While We Were Dreaming, The Metamorphosis after Franz Kafka, What’s Far is Near, I see my ghost coming from afar and Tilka. The play I see my ghost coming from afar was nominated for best performance at the 2023 Youth Festival in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. In 2023, she also participated in Shubbak Festival as director of the play Dreamer with Dalal Chachno, as well as receiving a scholarship from the Goethe Institute to participate as an artist in the Theatertreffen Festival in Berlin, where she worked with international artists.
She was in the world premiere of Cabaret Migrants, a touring Kahraba prouduction directed by Eric Deniaudpart. She is also part of TNT British Company and performed in the world premiere of My Sister Syria in Europe. In 2016 she worked on RISE production with The Old Vic New Voices as an assistant movement director. In 2015 she was selected to participate in the Home Grown Theatre Project, a collaboration with the Kevin Spacey Foundation in Sharjah, UAE. Lama has worked on two operas with Robert Wilson in New York at the summer programme and has also been a dancer with Sima Dance Company in Dubai.
