Sunday Short Theatre - Wifi Rider (2020)

Life is lonely for many of us, the internet might have the things we desire in life. Many of us can take the steps to make goals, the internet or even social media can make less lonely. What if you live in a part of a world accepting something that’s maybe not acceptable where you live? In this weeks Sunday Short Theatre, Wifi Rider a young man dreams of that world, so what do you do? Make your own!

The 12 minute Documentary Short comes from Roxy Rezvany. We follow a young Palestinian, Shukri who lives in Jerusalem. He dreams of living in a life that any teen desires. A world of western popstars, self love, he doesn’t fit in the life of a teen where accepting the life he wants is not a Palestinian teen life.

This fantastic short is a coming of age story that highlights Palestinian culture. Never feels forced on the viewer the focus is purely on Shukri his frustrations, and the life he wants. Next best thing is online

Life is lonely for young Palestinian, Shukri. He spends his days on the internet, immersed in a world where Western popstars preach self-love and unity, and where he can forget the lack of acceptance he faces in everyday life. But a life dreaming of paradise abroad does not bode well for a teenager stuck in East Jerusalem. What he desperately wants is to connect with others like him, who feel caught between an occupation, globalisation, and the universal growing pains that come with adulthood. In this 16mm documentary film, we follow Shukri from a childhood in East Jerusalem to moving to the hillside apartments of Amman, Jordan and the sandy shores of the Dead Sea. We discover the origins of his life as the ‘Wifi Rider’, and how he channelled his frustrations into art on the internet via tRASHY.