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Roll Down The Window (2024)

Duration: 10 min    Category: Personal, Short   Opportunity: Bridging the Gap

Synopsis

Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. Alice In Wonderland syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control. The film explores the idea of utilising AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past. 

Highlights

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025
DOC.Coimbra 2025
‘Reframe and Rejoice’ International Women’s Day Shorts Showcase by Reclaim the Frame 2025
Resistance of Vision (touring programme by San Francisco IndieFest)
Kyiv International Film Festival

Director:
Lipa Hussain

Producer: Josefin Bagge

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