Document HRFF: Nana and Shadow Fighters

This double explores the "Outsider" as subject and their fight to be visible despite their difference.

Nana (2014, Greece)
Dir. Lara Christen

What is it like to be invisibe? Nana combines observation, interview and archive to construct a portrait of a seventy-year old trans woman living in Thessaloniki. Lara Chrtisten's documentary looks at the world through the eyes of someone who has managed to survive and love despite what seems to be insurmountable struggle. Yet she is hardly a tragic figure. Nana is as humourous as it is thoughtful - challenging our notion of what it means to be seen.

Shadow Fighters (2015, Denmark)
Dir. Josefine Heimburger

Shadow Fighters is a stirring documentary that follows the lives of two albino men in Tanzania. Mashaka, a teacher in his early 30s in Mwanza and Abdul, an 11-year-old boy in Dar Es Salaam - two fighters who seek to get out from under the social stigma of their condition. Heimburger's film is a visually arresting exploration of Tanzanian culture - empathic, incisive and unique.

This double bill will be introduced by Matthew Waites of the University of Glasgow.