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Mar 31, 2017 · Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Charles Dance, Oliver Jackson-Cohen. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him.
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Canadian/British writer and director Shamim Sarif has just completed her fifth feature film, Polarized. Her previous features as writer/director include Despite the Falling Snow, (Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance) based on Shamim’s acclaimed second novel. The movie garnered 13 awards. Her feature ‘The World Unseen’ debuted at the Toronto Interna
First look at the official trailer for 'Polarized'. Winner of the Audience award at the Canadian Film Festival - written and directed by Shamim Sarif, starr...
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A collection of film reel scenes from Shamim Sarif, award-winning filmmaker, author, speaker.
Shamim Sarif. Director: Despite the Falling Snow. Writer and director Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and director for film and TV. She is also a long-time advocate for the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community. Her new book, The Athena Protocol, is a feminist thriller released by HarperCollins in October 2019 as the first in a Young Adult series. The book is being developed for TV with...
Jan 1, 2003 · Fastidious is probably the word that describes it better. It seems that Shamim Sarif wants you to think exactly what she herself thinks about all her characters. Her descriptions are very detailed, with many adjectives, but apply mainly to the characters' psychology, which means you get very little descriptions of Khrushchev-era Russia for ...
Polarized is a British-Canadian drama film, written and directed by Shamim Sarif and released in 2023. The film stars Holly Deveaux as Lisa, a young farm girl from rural Manitoba who is fired by manager Dalia (Maxine Denis) from her job after an angry, racially insensitive outburst, only for the two women to subsequently develop a romantic relationship which tests the divisions and cleavages in the community around race, religion and sexuality.
