Rendah Haj is an African-Australian filmmaker and director based in Melbourne. She has extensive history working in radio broadcast and curating social impact and youth mindful projects nationally. As a recent RMIT film graduate, her work now specifically focuses on documentaries that intimately and ethically explore social issues and human rights, with an emphasis on the subtlties of minority experiences and untold stories of the African diaspora.
In our current turbulent global climate, muslim migrants and refugees are continiously stigmatised due to the overall negative perceptions held by the ‘majority’ of Western societies. The journey to migrate and re-settle in a foreign place is met with great hardship and hostility, a struggle that further isolates families and individuals within their communities. HAYAT observes and subtly explores the difficulties Rahma faces as a single mother living in government housing, raising her four children in Melbourne, Australia. I felt it…
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