Photographs by Hassan El Husseini

‘GIVE ME A NAME’

The United Kingdom, about ten years in the future. Jennifer, a senior intelligence officer, is briefing her deputy Kate about a new prisoner who has been arrested for crimes against the state. But there is something different about this prisoner… As Kate ruthlessly interrogates the prisoner, Jennifer, faced with her sense of duty on one side and her conscience on the other, must make an impossible choice.

‘Give Me a Name’ is a tense short film focused on human rights, in an imaginary United Kingdom set about ten years in the future. It asks the questions: when duty and responsibility clashes with personal morality, which path is an ordinary person more likely to take? And how far will the state go in suppressing dissent, in the name of security? Could this be the future we all face? Drawing on real-life events, both here and internationally, ‘Give Me a Name’ is a warning about a future we could all face.

A short film directed by Sheena Holliday

10 mins, 2020