Hakawati Ltd
Hakawati is a London-based company producing and curating creative projects that hold the art of storytelling at their core. Set up by BAFTA-nominated BFI Vision Award winning producer and poet Elhum Shakerifar in 2017, the company is run with the belief that storytelling is both an art and a responsibility. All our projects derive from the central tenet that a good story is in the telling, and that we are the stories we tell. Recent productions include Ayouni by Yasmin Fedda (2020) and Helene Kazan’s multi-sensory investigative tribute to Asmahan, Clear Night (2025), which launched at the Sharjah Biennial. Hakawati is currently producing films by Ana Naomi de Sousa, Brett Story and Mohamed Jabaly.
Elhum Shakerifar is also on the Palestine Film Institute’s Executive Board and co-curator of the Palestine Film Platform. Her curatorial work over the years has included programming for Birds Eye View (Focus on Arab Women Directors, 2013); Art on the Underground (2014); London Film Festival (2014-21), Shubbak – festival of contemporary Arab culture (2015-19), Barbican (Poetry in Motion: Contemporary Iranian Cinema, 2019), BFI (Drama & Desire, the films of Youssef Chahine, 2023), Open City Documentary Festival (focus on Jocelyne Saab), amongst others.
Contact
Elhum Shakerifar
London, UK
