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‘Identity is more unstable than ever’: Riz Ahmed on new short film Dammi

The Sound of Metal star plays a character based on writer and director Yann Demange, who travels to Paris to reconnect with his Arab roots

Partly it is because Ahmed is now a bona fide Hollywood figure after films such as Sound of Metal, Nimona and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – having cut his teeth in indie British cinema, with credits including Shifty, Four Lions and Trishna. Growing up partly in foster care, he won a scholarship to the National Film and Television school and quickly transitioned to directing TV shows, including The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Dead Set and the critical and ratings hit Top Boy. Despite considerable acclaim, including winning the best director prize at the British independent film awards, Demange has completed only one feature since, the crime drama White Boy Rick about a drug dealing FBI informant.

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