NAJRIN ISLAM

art & film critic / curator


curating/programming

Curator, The Ground Is Moving: Experimental Shorts from India | upcoming, November 26, 2026 at Barbican Cinema

Curator, Home Is Elsewhere: Three Films on Labour and Belonging in association with DAYTIMERS, as part of the Backyard Biennale: East 2026 | August 08, 2026 at Whitechapel Gallery

Film Programmer, London Indian Film Festival for its 2026 edition across its feature films, documentaries, and shorts strands | July 9 – 19, 2026 across London, Manchester, and Birmingham

Curator, Double Bill #32: Laura Vandewynckel’s Paradise (2014) and 3723 km As the Crow Flies (2024) | July 2026, streaming on yanco magazine’s online platform

Co-Curator with Cindy Chehab , Mapping Absentia, as part of the curatorial programme Seismic Shits | streaming until July 2026 on This.Is.Short

Guest Curator, Tender Guerrillas: Self-Filming and Queer Becomings, Queer East Festival 2026 | 02 May 2026 at UCL East Community Cinema, Stratford

Guest Curator, Other Skies: Global South Futurisms, Go Short International Film Festival 2026 |0 April 2026 at LUX 2, Nijmegen

Guest Curator, East London, Bangladesh & Tales of Becoming, London Short Film Festival 2026 | 28 January, 20:45 at Rich Mix, London

Film Programmer, Eye to Eye, London Short Film Festival 2026 | 30 January, 21:00 at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Curator, Notes on Omission, an exhibition realised in association with Prameya Art Foundation, as a recipient of the Art Scribes Award 2022-23 | 10 – 22 December 2024 at Alliance Française de Delhi

Co-Programmer, Faces, Places: Looking At/Listening to Palestine, a film programme and listening session, organised in association with Birkbeck, University of London, the Open Society University Network (OSUN), and the Palestinian Sound Archive | 19 – 20 October 2024 at Atlas Cinema and New River Studios

Co-Programmer, Korean Film Nights 2024, in association with Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) and Birkbeck, University of London | 21 June – 10 July 2024 at Korean Cultural Centre UK and Institute of Contemporary Arts

Co-programmer, Restoring Solidarity with Palestine, a two-day film programme organised in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI) and MayDay Rooms | March 22-23, 2024

Film Programmer, Perceptual Transfers, organised as part of the exhibition Mycelial Legacies at Bikaner House, New Delhi | 29 January – 12 February, 2023

Co-curator, Ecologies in Motion , organised as part of Past-Present-Continuous: 25 Years of The Guild by The Guild Art gallery at Bikaner House, New Delhi | August 19-26, 2022