In Camera

With its dreamlike logic, looping around ideas and themes, In Camera is a disorientating film for disorienting times; opaque and enigmatic, scratching to get under the skin.

Hopefully In Camera provides plenty more opportunities for Khalid and Rizwan, who so richly deserve them based on the strength of this feature.

A stylish, surreal satire probing the nightmarish plight faced by working British-Asian actors in an apathetic industry.

Simultaneously playful and savagely pointed...

A savage satire that dips into unnerving fantasy imagery and squirmingly uncomfortable honesty, while also delivering some bleakly deadpan comic moments.

With Rizwan excelling throughout, this ambitious, audacious, acute, and occasionally angry treatise on identity, performance, and preconceptions doubles as a lament for the dehumanising soullessness of modern life.

[...] interesting, incisive and – above all – assured. Khalid knows the story he wants to tell and mostly pulls off the balance between challenging material and visuals. It is another strong debut from a British filmmaker forging their own unique path.

The film is at its best when Khalid lets us sit in a discomfiting moment... In Camera doesn’t always hang together, but when it snaps into focus it’s an audacious and exciting picture to experience.

[A] bold debut...

A distressing and disturbing metaphor for acting as a career, the ways in which we see other people, how we exploit what we see, and the harm that can cause.