G.O.A.T. Film Club: Frames of Belonging: Our Lens, Our Stories
Celebrating 25 years of Somerset House, Frames of Belonging: Our Lens, Our Stories is a one-day takeover of cinema as community, bold screenings, live filmmaker Q&As and industry networking. Presented by G.O.A.T Film Club for our Step Inside, Think Outside weekender, it’s an invitation to feel, think and connect. Across identity, heritage and collective experience, these films travel cultures, generations and borders, asking what it means to belong now.
| Dates | 13 Sep 2025 |
| Times | 12–8pm |
| Space | Screening Room |
| Price | Free |
EVENT SCHEDULE
- 12 –12pm Networking drinks
- 12.30–3pm Shorts Block 1: Friends, Family, Chosen + Filmmaker Q&A
- 3–3.30pm Networking drinks
- 3.30–6pm Shorts Block 2: People, Place, Place + Filmmaker Q&A
- 6–6.30pm Networking drinks
- 6.30–8pm NO OTHER LAND - feature film screening
SHORTS BLOCK 1: FRIENDS, FAMILY, CHOSEN
IT'S A FAMILY THING
Dir: Lea Anderson
An intimate look into an African American family, uncovering the story of a long-lost brother and exploring the transformative power of family and belonging.
SO LONG, FAREWELL
wri/dir: Rehan Mudannayake
A British-Sri Lankan man is forced to choose between pursuing his dream job abroad, and taking care of his elderly grandmother who brought him up.
SPERM DONORS WANTED!
Dir: Logan Rea
Sperm Donors Wanted! follows a transgender performance artist as he interviews hundreds of potential sperm donors live on stage in a quest to find the 'perfect' connection, one that will enable him and his partner to start their family.
BURY THE DOGS
wri/dir: Beth Rowland
A coming of age drama about the vulnerability of masculinity, the cracks that form in childhood friendships, and the frailty of father figures.
Content warning: violence, gore
SKATE LIKE A LASS
dir:Juliet Klottrup
documents grassroots skate communities in Northern England, creating space in skateboarding for female, marginalized and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
BREAKS
dir/prod: Christina Yianni
A deeply personal documentary that follows Team England parasurfer and Paralympian, Hannah Dines, who lives with cerebral palsy and PSC, from the shores of Wales to California to compete in the World Championships.
AMALI
dir: Ruby Harris
Amali is an honest glimpse into a 13 year olds world as she speaks to her fears and dreams through a summer roadtrip in rural Aotearoa.
CRIT
wri/dir/prod: Isabel Lea
A disillusioned student questions the value of her art education, while she struggles to find the meaning and motivation in making.
GOD IS GREY
Dir: Jennifer Drake
Chris, raised by two mothers in a Christian household, returns home after the death of one mother, PADDY, to find it unchanged. Desperate to honour her memory, he jeopardises his relationship with his other mother, MAMI Tess.
SHORTS BLOCK 2: PEOPLE, PLACE, SPACE
DÈYÈ DO BON DIÉ
dir/prod: Roy Jox-Fredstie
Conversations about home, danger and identity on the slopes of a reawakening volcano.
NO STRINGS
wri/dir: Molly Lipson
Climate organiser Milly is preparing for her first live TV interview when her boyfriend drops a bombshell about why she's been chosen as the movement's spokesperson.
Content warning: strong language
DIY (DONE IN SPITE OF YOU)
wri/dir: Hannah Oliver
'DIY' is a tribute to the constant renaissance of Black British music culture.
HEART VALLEY
dir/prod/cam/edit: Christian Cargill
Heart Valley follows a day in the life of Wilf Davies, a shepherd from the small village of Cellan, Wales. He has never left his valley, eats the same meal every day and works his farm alone, where his family of one hundred black-spotted sheep depend on him.
NO WAY BACK
dir/Prod: Tom Turner
British army veteran turned volunteer soldier, Fraser Good, has returned to the UK from the war in Ukraine. Civilian life, however, is unfamiliar. When the battlefield feels more like home, he faces a tough decision.
Content warning: violence, gore, strong language
TOO LONG AGO, NOT FAR
art: Yan Wai Yin
A personal journey unfolds on Super 8 film, recording a city’s life and memory, where every street, sound, and gesture becomes a notation of what endures.
SWEET LIME
wrt/dir: Fatema Abdoolcarim
After Amra and her mother pick up Hawra from the airport, she eavesdrops on the women's intimate conversation, while pretending to be asleep in the car. Catapulted into a space between childhood innocence and adult reality, Amra must choose whether to reveal a tragedy she has innocently discovered.
THE VISIT
wri/dir: Ebele Tate
When 18-year-old Nneka attempts to connect with her estranged mother after 10-years, the fantasy of who she is, is abruptly shattered by the harsh reality of living with mental illness and extreme poverty.
Content warning: violence, strong language
FEATURE
NO OTHER LAND
wri/dir/edit: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
prod: Fabien Greenberg & Bård Kjøge Rønning
RATING: 15
Content warning: violence, gore, strong language
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.