Film London are pleased to show recent work by the 2025-2026 FLAMIN Fellowship artists at Minor Attractions 2026, a week-long art fair in central London. Artists presenting new and recent films in the programme are:

Alina Akbar
Charlie Osborne
Dino Zhang
Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan
Laisul Hoque

Films in the programme span intricately hand-drawn and screenprinted animations, experimental documentaries on the migrant experience in Birmingham and Manchester, an exploration of Albania's ties with China shot on 8mm film, and a surreal smurf foam party scene set in an abandoned town hall.

Thursday 15 October 2026
12 – 7 pm
Drop-in looped screening

The Newman Hotel (Room 109)
50 Newman St
London W1T 3EB

Free admission, RSVP required

Hosted by Minor Attractions

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Programme

Simon Hamlyn, Green Lung (2024), 3 mins
Charlie Osborne, Old Town (2023), 6 mins
Alina Akbar, Pardesi Raga (2024), 8 mins
Dino Zhang, Blues in Tirana (2026), 17mins
Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan, A Taste For Music (2022), 5 mins
Laisul Hoque, Learning to Drive in Birmingham (2026), 30 min

The full programme is 70 mins long and is shown on a loop.

Loop start times:
12pm | 1:10pm | 2:20pm | 3:30pm | 4:40pm | 5:50pm

Simon Hamlyn

Green Lung (2024), 3 mins

Green Lung responds to the history of Derby Arboretum, Britain’s first public park, commissioned by mill owner Joseph Strutt, opened in 1840. Using screen-printed animation and found materials, the film makes connections between the nature of the park, and the industrial working lives of those it was intended to benefit.

Charlie Osborne

Old Town (2023), 6 mins

Old Town is structured like a romanticised poem, two blue characters from a realm reminiscent of a Swansea Oceana club night descend across a foamy stage. A seaside-cow-boy sings from a distant underpass lyrics that weep ‘What if I go sit in the bottom of this Ocean, would these walls still leak for me?’ Old Town becomes an aching leaking heart where the only answer is to keep dancing, even if there's no audience. A sense of loneliness conjures magic from Old Town’s underbelly. The gateway and separation between stage and curtain becomes like a portal. And against this backdrop our seaside cowboy croons a haunting melody. These two blue figures like lovers from a dream carry the wind like the foam machine from club Oceana blowing stories out through the slats of a dusty boarded up building creaking like a dis-used town hall.

Alina Akbar

Pardesi Raga (2024), 8 mins

Dino Zhang

Blues in Tirana (2026), 17 mins

47 years after the rupture between Albania and China, a young Chinese filmmaker returns to Tirana in place of his grandfather. Alongside three Albanian students, he pieces together the turbulent global picture of the Cold War using old photographs, poetry, and an uneasy future. Since the deaths of Mao and Hoxha, China and Albania have reshaped their socialist foundations into shifting economic and ideological hybrids. Every city conceals desires and fears like dreams.¹Blues in Tirana interprets the lingering summer blues as both political aftershock and youthful restlessness, rippling across nations and generations. Blending documentary texture with scripted reverie, the film adopts a coming-of-age gaze to track post-socialist tremors and to explore how we inhabit an interconnected world while imagining the next step of history.

¹ Calvino, Italo. (1972). Invisible Cities. Translated by William Weaver. Random House.

Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan

A Taste for Music (2022)

Living with a sick loved one can have benefits and problems. A Taste For Music is a self-reflection on the memories and the record collection of the artist’s father.

Laisul Hoque

Learning to Drive in Birmingham (2026), 30 mins

In Learning to Drive in Birmingham, Laisul, a Bangladeshi immigrant now living in the UK, attempts to navigate Birmingham through driving lessons, conversations in cars, and phone calls from home. Filmed inside vehicles and among construction sites, blocked roads and sprawling South Asian neighbourhoods on the city’s outskirts, the work reflects on mobility, belonging and displacement, while offering a glimpse into the lives of Bangladeshi communities who have made Birmingham their home. The film also traces the stories, histories and experiences of the Birmingham Bengali community and the significant role they played in the Bangladesh Liberation Movement during the 1970s. The film offers an intimate understanding of the migrant experience of navigating a new city, and of how cultural exchange, labour and identity become woven into the fabric of a place shaped by multiple histories and cultures. Through the process of learning to navigate Birmingham, Laisul moves between city road systems, personal memories and local archives, bringing these different fragments together into a film that holds individual and collective histories alongside one another.

The FLAMIN Fellowship is a major development programme for early-career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the Fellowship aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image practices from filmmakers at the early stages of their careers, with development and funding for new work.

Minor Attractions is a week-long art fair taking place in London, inviting global commercial galleries and not-for-profit art spaces, founded in 2023. The fair is designed as a space where art and nightlife meet, allowing the swells of international collectors in the city to mingle with the art workers and artists that make the art world tick. Galleries are encouraged to bring exciting and daring work, creating a new context for London’s buzzing art scene.

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