BRINGING LIVED EXPERIENCE INTO THE ROOMS WHERE GLOBAL DECISIONS ARE MADE
Presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2024, HOME is an immersive installation produced by SOC Films and directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy that brings audiences face to face with the human realities of displacement. At its centre are three women whose lives have been shaped by different forms of crisis across the Global South. Through their first-person accounts, HOME explores what it means to rebuild a life after armed conflict, environmental disaster and economic hardship — and the choices people make when circumstances force them to leave, adapt and begin again.
Presented at Davos, these individual stories entered a space where some of the world’s most influential leaders gather to discuss the very forces shaping migration, inequality, climate and conflict.
SEVEN SCREENS. THREE LIVES. ONE SHARED QUESTION OF HOME.
Rather than presenting the stories as conventional linear films, SOC Films created an environment audiences could move through. Three original documentary films were mapped across seven staggered screens, with image and sound moving through the installation. Visitors could navigate the space at their own pace, encountering fragments of each woman’s story before gradually assembling a fuller picture of her life. The format shifts documentary from something watched at a distance into something encountered spatially — surrounding audiences with voices, images and experiences that can be easy to reduce to statistics in conversations about global crisis.
At the centre of HOME is a simple idea: behind every conversation about displacement are individual lives, choices, memories and futures.
Jelly Bean Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Faizan Ali In collaboration with Lanny Cordola & Miraculous Kids
Wajiha Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Faizan Ali In collaboration with WM Creative Studio
Fizza Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Faizan Ali In collaboration with Ali Changezi & The Hazara Girls Football Academy, Manghopir, Karachi
Directors: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Faizan Ali
Producer: Faizan Ali
Cinematography: Faizan Ali, Murtaza Ali & Khurram Victor
Editor & Colourist: Nadir Shahzad
Assistant Editor: Mohammad Saim
Sound Post: Sameer Khan
Composer, Jelly Bean: Azhar Kamal
General Manager: Gul Zaib Shakeel
