Shamim Sarif is the pioneering director whose films focusing on love stories between women of colour – such as The World Unseen and I Can’t Think Straight – have become cult classics.
It has been seven years since the 53-year-old’s last feature Despite the Falling Snow – though in the meantime she has written novels and directed TV including on hit Netflix show You – which means tomorrow’s premiere of Polarized at BFI Flare, Europe’s largest queer film festival, is something of an event.
