Marvel might have lost its shine and gauntlet tight hold on audiences but the world still needs superheroes. Riffy Ahmed’s The Call, a love letter to parents, posits that the heroes we truly need are perhaps a little closer to home than expected. The Call is an emotive example of elegantly contained two-hander storytelling that blends the themes of strained family dynamics, the struggles of single parenthood and concerns for a loved one’s state of mind, all with an evocatively woven dose of magic realism. Adapted from Vanessa Rose’s original stage play, which caught Ahmed’s attention in 2018, she transformed this mother-daughter narrative into a visually rich short that you can’t help falling for. Ahmed was featured on the pages of Dn back in 2022 for her revitalisation of a mythological text through a Bipoc gaze in Medea and we welcome her back with The Call to...
- 4/4/2025
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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