23rd edition November 20th to 28th, 2026
23rd edition
20 to 28 November, 2026
Born in 1988, Imran Perretta is a writer, director, visual artist, and composer. Established in the world of contemporary art, his installations in the field of sound and moving images have been presented worldwide and are part of numerous public and private art collections. The Destructors, his most recent short film, has been screened at major institutions in the United Kingdom. Perretta received a Turner Prize fellowship in 2020, was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2019, and won a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award in 2023. Ish, his debut feature-length film, had its premiere in the Settimana Internazionale della Critica at the Venice International Film Festival..
Twelve-year-old Ismail “Ish” Zia, a British Bangladeshi boy from Luton, England, grapples with loss, friendship, and identity during one transformative summer. Amid the grief of his mother’s recent death, Ish faces mounting pressure from the outside world as he navigates a strained relationship with his best friend and contends with the harsh realities of being a young brown man in a post-9/11 society.
Director Imran Perretta
Producer Dhiraj Mahey, Bennet McGee
Screenwriter Imran Perretta, Enda Walsh
Cinematographer Jermaine Canute Edwards
Editor Adam Biskupski
Sound Jens Petersen, Nina Hartstone, Jake Whitelee
Music Imran Perretta
Production Companies Primal Pictures, Home Team
International Sales Company Global Constellation