Elhum Shakerifar
Elhum Shakerifar is a BAFTA-nominated producer, curator, poet and translator; she runs the London-based company Hakawati ('storyteller' in Arabic).
By Elhum Shakerifar
| April 16, 2026
Working with Riz Ahmed, screenwriter Michael Lesslie reimagines Hamlet in a present-day multicultural London that allows for new layers to emerge: questions of agency and belonging in a society that, as you come of age, reveals itself to be more sinister than you had grown up thinking.