Dreamers

  • In theatres11.12.2025
  • Production year2025
  • CountryEngland
  • Length76min
  • LanguageEnglisch
  • ProductionEmily Morgan, Executive Producers: Claudia Yusef, Amy Gardner, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Doris Gharoro
  • DirectorJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor
  • CastAisha Bywaters
  • Age restriction16
  • Festivals
    Berlinale Panorama 2025
    Pink Apple Zurich 2025
    EVERYBODY’S PERFECT Geneva 2025
    Queersicht Film Festival 2025

Story

Dreams behind closed doors, freedom through imagination and hope: a visual and poetic odyssey about the search for freedom, love and friendship in an asylum centre – and about the necessity of breaking rules.

Isio fled Nigeria. She lives without papers in England until she is picked up and taken to an asylum centre. There, she follows every rule in the hope of a fair trial. But her roommate Farah sees things differently: those who follow the rules gain nothing here.

As Isio tries to survive in this limbo, new friendships develop – and new feelings. But the longer she waits, the clearer it becomes how fragile the promise of safety is. If you want to survive, you have to find your own way.

Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s tender but unflinching feature debut is inspired by her own experience in the British asylum system. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Berlinale and opened the 2025 Pink Apple Queer Film Festival.

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Special Screenings

12.12.2025
Houdini Zürich, Black Film Festival
Festival Screening - Opening Film
12.11.2025 | 18:00
Kellerkino Bern, Queersicht
Festival Screening
08.11.2025 | 20:30
Cinématte Bern, Queersicht
Festival Screening
31.10.2025 | 20:45
KultKino Basel, Pink Friday
Event Screening
31.10.2025 | 20:30
KultKino Basel, Pink Friday
Event Screening
15.10.2025 | 19:00
Festival Screening
14.10.2025 | 20:30
Festival Screening in the presence of the director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
09.05.2025 | 18:30
Cinema Luna Frauenfeld, Pink Apple
Festival Screening
07.05.2025 | 21:00
RiffRaff Zurich, Pink Apple
Festival Screening
02.05.2025 | 20:30
RiffRaff Zurich, Pink Apple
Festival Screening in the presence of the director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
29.04.2025 | 20:15
Arthouse Zürich, Pink Apple
Festival Screening - Opening film, in the presence of the director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor

 

Shows

Genève, Cinéma BIO
10.12.2025
Neuchâtel, Cinepel Neuchâtel
10.12.2025
10.12.2025
St.Gallen, KinoK
11.12.2025
Winterthur, Kino Cameo
11.12.2025
Wädenswil, Schlosscinema
11.12.2025