Tom Smıth is a writer in his early twenties. While at King’s College London, he worked as an Intern for Paris Match magazine and as a Researcher for Monocle magazine. He is currently preparing to move to Berlin. Tom’s future projects include learning Turkish, post-graduate study to pursue interests in film, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, and finishing a collection of short stories. His interests are orientated around colours, cities and noises.

Ideology and revolution

Now that terrorism is considered as an outside threat, this is the perfect time to make an anarcho-historical film. Its portrayal of the state’s violently strong response to terror has obvious resonances in the current period.

Forgetting colonial India

The scale may be localised at times, but the presence of the border and the resulting bureaucracy reminds the viewer of the splintering divisions that run through all lives in post-independent and partitioned India.

The modern world of migration and activism

Fatih Akin draws on his Turkish and German heritage to examine two aspects of the world: the clashes and conflicts within, and its inherent beauty. The conflicts between the two cultures are combined in each of the threads running through the film.