Film is a powerful medium for preserving cultural memory - yet Sinti and Roma communities are too often denied access to their own visual histories.

Patrin Films Ltd in collaboration with Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg , present two film programs that centre Romani* perspectives and challenge the ongoing erasure of their narratives.

Check out this upcoming live recorded episode where Canan Turan will talk with filmmaker and curator Lisa Smith about the cinematic representation of Romani and Traveller people in the UK and beyond and her artistic and political vision for films made by and about her community. Canan will ask Lisa also about her work at @akedikhea - International Festival of Romani Film, AVAZYA International Romani Film Professionals Network and her production company Patrin Films.