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My Grandfather – A Desk For Each Pupil

Hena Krasniqi | Duration 6’

In the 90s, when the Serbian government forcibly removed students for opposing the curriculum, the director’s grandfather and other volunteers built new desks, ensuring education in Kosovo.

Hope Hotel Phantom

Bojan Stojcic

In November 1995, the leaders of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia & Serbia met in Dayton (Ohio) to broker a peace agreement that would end four violent years of war in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Negotiated at the Hope Hotel located on the grounds of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Dayton Agreement locked Bosnia & Herzegovina into a simulacra of democracy, through the proxy of a site that was a simulacra in itself: a military base on the other side of the world, an intimidation to the signing parties.

Rabbitland

Ana and Nikola Majdak | Duration 7’

Brainless Rabbits live in Rabbitland, a territory advertised as a seemingly perfect world that bears an unsettling resemblance to the landscapes of war zones, ghettos and slums. Their everyday life seems completely ordered and fulfilled. However, the Rabbits spend their days voting again and again, participating in a simulacrum of an electoral process that takes place once a day. Is this an exemplary free and democratic society or the worst of dystopias painted in vivid shades of pink?

Letters from Silivri

Adrian Figueroa | Duration 16'

Letters from Silivri draws on letters of the Turkish philanthropist and public intellectual Osman Kavala to document a timeline of his imprisonment. By separating voice and image, the film intends to create an echo chamber that allows audiences to listen more carefully to Kavalas letters, while at the same time placing his words in context of the civil society.

Without Kosovo

Dea Gjinovci | Duration 22'

The director and his father take the road to retrace the latter's exile as a 19-year-old refugee from Kosovo in 1968.

Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories

Anna Vasof | Duration 14’

A seemingly simple but multilayered work about memory, loss and how we deal with the past. The starting point was a flood, which left her parents’ house a muddy mess; two days later the director was able to enter and survey the damage, examining and musing over the water-damaged fragments of a life.

OCCUPIED – Lobau stays!

Matteo Molina | Duration 29' 52"

This 30-min cinéma vérité documentary is about climate activists that occupied several construction sites in Vienna, Austria for almost a year to stop the construction of two highways, crossing the nature reserve Lobau. The documentary gives an unfiltered view on what the daily life of an activist looks like and what few individuals can achieve in an extreme situation like an occupation.

Those Next to Us

Bernhard Hetzenauer | Duration 30'

On July 22nd, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, the police found a truck in a Walmart parking lot with 39 illegal immigrants. A tractor had been transporting them undetected from the border town of Laredo to San Antonio. Because the cooling system inside the truck failed, resulting in extreme heat, eight people died during the transport, and two others succumbed to dehydration in the hospital. Those Next to Us traces the journey of one of the survivors from the transport, Germán López Rosales, from Mexico to San Antonio.

Surfacing Images

Tara Najd Ahmadi | Duration 5'

Surfacing Images is an experimental documentary about film preservation and the destiny of images that are left on their own. Through a phone conversation between a women’s rights activist and a former political prisoner, as they discuss from the works of filmmakers Dušan Makavejev and Bojana Marijan to the films of the 1979 Revolution in Iran and the videos of the Iranian Women’s uprising, this film portrays the irresistible urge of images to resurface and be seen.

Water and Salt

Luisa Mello | Duration 10’ 35’’

During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a woman is floating in waters far from home. When everything seems calm, a wave hits and carries her to the depths of her being. Water and Salt is a journey through the consciousness of someone whose country is under threat from a fascist government.

Démontable

Douwe Dijkstra | Duration 12'

War is waged on the kitchen table while a man drinks coffee. The world's on fire. Helicopters shred his newspaper, a drone fires at a plate of broccoli. Démontable is a playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and global news.

Sensitive Content

Narges Kalhor | Duration 8'

After the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, massive women’s rights and anti-authoritarian protests erupted across Iran, which were violently suppressed by the regime in Tehran. Using social media sensitivity filters as a central metaphor, Sensitive Content explores how one witnesses and documents both historical events and dissent in the modern age.

I Signed the Petition

Mahdi Fleifel | Duration 11'

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyzes, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.

Flores del otro patio

Jorge Cadena | Duration 15' 20"

In northern Colombia, a group of queer activists use their extravagance to denounce the disastrous exploitation of the largest coal mine in Colombia through performative actions. Flores del otro patio is a film-manifesto that illustrates the connection between queerness and nature, as well as how empowerment and reclaiming one’s identity can be fertile tools in rescuing a nature plundered by the exploits of capitalism.

Inflorescence

Nicolaas Schmidt | Duration 8'

Autumn again on planet Earth. A couple of rosy rose petals in eternal solidarity enduring great trouble from a heavy thunderstorm. A romantic conceptualism bedtime fable of resistance & redundancy, or the awkward ambivalence of truth, dream, life and love.

Loveboard

Felipe Casanova | Duration 18’

A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken relationship. Both fragile, both recomposed to reveal the fragments of a first love that seems to fade away. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the warm director’s look on a found intimate archive, a parallel movement of lingering and resistance against the ephemeral. A playful reflection on what remains.

The Oasis I Deserve

Inès Sieulle | Duration 22’ 27"

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.

Towards the Sun, Far from the Center

Pascal Viveros, Luciana Merino | Duration 16’ 40"

Santiago in the shimmering summer heat. High-res images undergo a digital zoom which transforms spaces into surfaces and houses into textures. In between, there are the small gestures of everyday urban life. Two women search for a place for their love.

Crushed

Camille Vigny | Duration 12’ 32’’

Summer is the season for stock cars. The cars get ready for a long day of racing that will end in their total demolition. I remember the violent summer of my 18th birthday.

Ludwig (Power Inferno)

Anton Bialas | Duration 15’

A short tale of power, utopia, and madness, seen through the figure of King Ludwig II of Bavaria — doomed in his excessive dreams of beauty and foreseeing the dystopian reality of the times that would succeed him at the turn of the 20th century.

Like a Sick Yellow

Norika Sefa | Duration 23’ 11”

An immersion into Nora's memory, where realities merge, the bad and beautiful intertwine until it’s all mingled and something else is formed. A tragedy foretold.

UNDR

Kamal Aljafari | Duration 15’

The camera's eye returns obsessively to the same places, a vertical perspective that imposes control, the possession of archaeological sites, stones lying for thousands years in the desert. The places it observes, however, are not deserted: we see the peasants working the land, themselves transformed into landscape. Something disturbs the stillness of the place: explosions on land and in the sea prepare the ground for new cities with new names, new forests.

Unwanted Kinship

Pavel Mozhar | Duration 30’

Using the streets of his Berlin neighborhood as a backdrop, a filmmaker born in Belarus investigates the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine and explores his own responsibility for this war.

Man number 4

Miranda Pennell | Duration 9’ 52"

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

I Would Rather Be a Stone

Ana Hušman | Duration 23' 48“

Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes.

Very Gentle Work

Nate Lavey | Duration 23’ 55"

Through a fictional protagonist’s psychogeographic research into militant revenge and Jewish tradition, Very Gentle Work connects Sholem Schwarzbard, the Black Liberation Army, FALN and Weather Underground to the ongoing struggle against a proposed police training center near Atlanta, Georgia.

To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion

Valentin Noujaïm | Duration 14'

Claire, a businesswoman promoting a new skyscraper office in La Défense, faces increasing scrutiny and isolation. The cold, grey offices amplify her loneliness, driving vivid dreams of setting the tower ablaze.

The Seventh Shift

Nataliya Ilchuk | Duration 15'

A portrait of a solitary woman who works four jobs in a nearly abandoned Ukrainian town. Continual ritual gestures that do not involve obtaining a profit and an irrational faith in the unattainable become the main basis of the film, while its prosaic reality is not being expressed explicitly but through the visual poetry of an industrial town in decay.

for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world

Gala Hernández López | Duration 19' 06"

A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?

Workers’ Wings

Ilir Hasanaj | Duration 19'

Men who have suffered work injuries are looking at us. How do they feel? What are their hopes? What does the future hold for them? Every line on their faces is sculpted by life itself. In contrast, a system filled with danger and injustice looms overhead.

De Gallo Qui Ovavit

Nina Forsman | Duration 15’ 5"

Only chickens and machines can lay eggs. Never roosters. An egg laying rooster is a phenomenon that has disturbed the human mind since time immemorial; in different eras these roosters have been classified as lethal monsters, satanic criminals or biological freaks. But which one came first, the monster or the human?

Magnifica: Passive Intruder

Ville Koskinen | Duration 20’

Something unrecognizable has invaded the cottage shores of Finland, which used to be a safe and familiar environment. The arrival of green and slimy blobs brings uncomfortable feelings to the middle class community. Their jiggly movement alone disgusts them.

Lick a Wound

Nathan Ghali | Duration 25'

A mysterious community of animals engages in rituals in the basements of a church, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar.

The Moving Garden

Inês Lima | Duration 19'

Accompanied by two botanical guides, a group of hikers embark on a journey through the enchanting landscapes of Arrábida Natural Park. As they traverse the park's diverse flora and fauna, they uncover evidence of a troubling transformation: human intervention is reshaping this once-pristine environment.

I Accidentally Stepped on a Flower

Eneos Çarka, Stivi Imami | Duration 17’ 41"

Tirana's second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state of limbo, silent and timeless. Built with over a million point clouds after scanning the entire stadium, this posthumanist film-poem is the result of a first contact with the perennial wildflowers that had sprouted in the abandoned fields of the stadium.

315

Daniel Jacoby | Duration 14'

A sequence of family anecdotes and historical events coinciding with the artist's date of birth take on a different tone as he unearths what happened in his native Peru on that specific day in 1989.

detours while speaking of monsters

Deniz Şimşek | Duration 18'

A 4000-year-old aquatic monster now lives through the tales of the few. Its myth dates back to the ancestors of Armenians and Kurds around Lake Van, a region that witnessed the ethnic cleansing of both peoples. On the crossroads of mythological, political and personal realms, different forms of erasure are concealed. Old gods are upset with us, and I am upset with my father.

512×512

Arthur Chopin | Duration 21’ 11"

An Internet user enters the mental space of an artificial intelligence in search of Francine Descartes, the daughter of René Descartes. This intelligence produces an infinite number of images from a sequence of words ordered by men, until it functions on its own, without human intervention.

Dull Spots of Greenish Colours

Sasha Svirsky | Duration 10’ 32"

War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as one of the acting forces. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.

The Night of the Minotaur

Juliana Zuluaga Montoya | Duration 10’ 42"

The Night of the Minotaur uses archival material to build the story of Luz Emilia García, the precursor of porn cinema in Colombia.

Coldness

Andrea Sánchez | Duration 14’

The screams and anguishes of a B horror film shot in the late 80s sneak through the streets of Andorra, creating a crack between the present and the past of cinema in the country. The Specter of Justine, a cursed film that never saw the light of day... until now stirs the city.

Parallel Botany

Magdalena Bermudez | Duration 11'

Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a new exterior.

When We Encounter the World

r. Leonardo Pirondi & Zazie Ray-Trapido | Duration 11'

In 1934, an experiment by an amateur-scientist couple began. Named after a genus of moths, the Automeris Project placed a group of young children in an enclosed forest, leaving them to fend for themselves. On return visits, the couple presented self-made films, accompanied by live music, depicting the outside world.

The Mars Project

Louis Rémy | Duration 13'

Through a collection of archived videos found in the depths of YouTube, ordinary people apply to join a space mission team heading to Mars in the year 2022. This announcement from Mars Venture, nearly a decade ago, reveals our society’s interest in the conquest of the red planet and prompts us to question the colonial rhetoric inherent in New Space projects.

Wild Fruits

Bernardo Zanotta | Duration 35' 16"

The 16th century. After a period overseas in the Antarctic France, Jean Aurand finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever.

The Third World After the Sun

Analú Laferal & Tiagx Vélez | Duration 19' 50"

A transvestite ritual performed by the artists Analú Laferal and Tiagx Vélez opens a portal and generates an encounter with a European missionary from the fifteenth century who has delved deep into the jungle in order to fight the belief of animals as divine. A transmaterial dream, shrouded by the penumbra cast by cosmic horrors.

BLUE

Violena Ampudia | Duration 17'

BLUE is the result of a collaborative process with women who have experienced postpartum depression. Director Violena Ampudia organizes a cyanotype workshop for these mothers to create their own images that illustrate their condition: their fears, dreams and experiences, all expressed through different shades of blue.

Razeh-del

Maryam Tafakory | Duration 27’47”

In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.

getty abortions

Franzis Kabisch | Duration 21’ 45”

What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? In the form of a desktop essay, getty abortions examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photos, teen magazines and documents of a real abortion experience, while also jumping back from the early 2000s to the late 19th century, in search of feminist knowledge.

Loving in Between

Jyoti Mistry | Duration 18’

Between birth and death is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archive sources, love is unboxed from categories, in queer expression and a celebration of eros.

The Sunset Special 2

Nicolas Gebbe | Duration 18’ 52”

This exclusive luxury cruise presents itself as the perfect holiday and family utopia. However, all artificial facades of this attractive consumer product dissolve, as a psychedelic dream world unfolds, illusions break and the crude reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled.

How to Disappear

Total Refusal | Duration 21’

An anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, How to Disappear searches for possibilities of peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion — in both digital and physical-real warfare.

Why Don’t the Cops Fight Each Other

Grayson Earle | Duration 9’

This desktop documentary investigates the relationships between police officers in GTA V. Through an exhaustive forensic analysis of the game’s source code, it demonstrates the extent to which the cultural imaginary concerning the real world police is projected into the game space.

The Grannies

Marie Foulston | Duration 27’

A group of players venture beyond the game's boundaries and discover a captivating, ethereal space that reveals the humanity and materiality of digital creations. This peek behind the curtain of the virtual world allows to capture a unique experience that transcends the game itself.

Dance, Voldo, Dance

Chris Brandt | Duration 4’

Voldo is a character in the fighting video game Soulcalibur. The choreographed moves of two equally freaky Voldos in this recording are all actual game play. This early machinima was made during a week of full-time training and performance.

It’s in the Game ’17

Sondra Perry | Duration 16’

Sondra Perry looks into how gaming can capitalise on the simulation of bodies and objects. She focuses on her brother Sandy, whose physical statistics were licensed, without his consent, to game developer EA Sports. This raises the question of ownership and agency in relation to digital bodies.

Parallel I

Harun Farocki | Duration 16'

The four-part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds. Parallel I opens up a history of styles in computer graphics and meditates on the current orientation towards photorealism.

This Water Gives Back No Images

Aleksandar Radan | Duration 6'

A tropical landscape turns out to be the distorted world of a human avatar. In Aleksandar Radan's film nothing is as it seems yet eerily real.

Cosecha mecánica

Felix Klee | Duration 3'

Non-playable latinx characters work in endless loops alongside propagandistic praise of cheap Mexican labor. Somewhere on a field a worker sings: Lo que quiero es una máquina lechuguera (All I want is a salad harvesting machine). Cosecha mecánica ("mechanical harvest") juxtaposes the 1950s US propaganda film „Why braceros?“, contemporary audio field-recordings and background characters of a video game to visually explore how work is reshaped and its value redefined to suit our consumerist needs.

Happy New Year, Jim

Andrea Gatopoulos | Duration 9'

It's New Year's Eve. Jim and Morten play video games all night long, just like they do every day. But their regular voice chat conversation is not the same as usual. Tonight, Morten is not feeling comfortable.

Descent into Hell

Jacky Connoly | Duration 37'

A woman is alone in her apartment in an empty, abandoned world. This opens onto a story of a woman in an alternate timeline, on a journey through California. She rides freight trains, explores hidden corners of the city, and encounters strange happenings along the way.

Grand Theft Hamlet

Pinny Grylls și Sam Crane | Duration 88’

January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the future looks bleak. As the pandemic drags on, Mark - single and childless - is increasingly socially isolated, while Sam panics about how he is going to support his young family. They spend their days in the online digital world of Grand Theft Auto and when they stumble across a theatre, they suddenly have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game. This film charts their ridiculous, hilarious and moving adventure as they battle violent griefers and discover surprising truths about life, friendship and the enduring power of Shakespeare.

Punctured Sky

Jon Rafman | Duration 21'

An unseen narrator reunites with his old friend Joey Bernstein in the dingy back room of a comic and games store located in a dead mall. Bernstein asks if the narrator remembers their favorite childhood computer game, Punctured Sky, and informs him that all trace of the game has vanished from history. The narrator embarks on a quest through a parallel universe full of animal-human hybrids to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of Punctured Sky.

Theta

Lawrence Lek | Duration 11'

In the smart city of SimBeijing, a self-driving police car confronts their existential troubles with their built-in AI therapist. While patrolling the streets of this ghost town, the car reveals the darker reasons behind why it was abandoned.

Dreams about Putin

Nastia Korkia & Vlad Fishez | Duration 30'

After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 many people started to dream about Putin. And they shared these dreams in the media. Over 1000 dreams about Putin are documented. This film is an attempt to reflect on the theme of repression through a combination of found footage and 3D game animation made in Unreal Engine in order to portray the authentic dreams of those affected by the war and explore the theme of the collective unconscious in society.

Sleep #2

Radu Jude | Duration 61'

Jude’s interest for Warhol’s art has been known for years now, and yet nobody could’ve anticipated Sleep #2. A rendition of Warhol’s radical cinematic practices — “bad filmmaking” — his static takes, indifferent zooms and philosophy of pop, the film is a poetic meditation on work, surveillance, public space, and image form. What makes Jude so special to modern cinephilia is a certain flair of his to be watching a screen, any screen, and understand its glass, desktop, and interface as a landscape, and the landscape as mise-en-scène. That is, as something given yet subject to change. Warhol understood the same about portraits. And in the end, there’s no principial difference between a landscape and a portrait. (Călin Boto)

Empire

Phil Solomon | Duration 48'

A re-make of Andy Warhol’s Empire from high atop the Manhattan Island of Grand Theft Auto IV, far from the madding crowd of thieves, cops, prostitutes and murderers down below. I hijacked a copter, leaped onto the rooftop of an adjacent building, spawned a scooter out of the thin air and then gingerly drove it to the very edge of the precipice in order to roughly approximate that familiar view from July 25-26, 1964. And then I put the controller aside and did exactly nothing for 24 hours (48 minutes in our world). A day of rest and bordered inaction. And lo and behold, the Overseers appear to have accounted for someone, somewhere doing exactly this, resisting the game’s narrative intention toward movement and action.

Rehearsals for Peace

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán | Duration 16' 26''

A tale from the 16th century narrates the story of Ursula, a female figure disguised as a man, who successfully chased away occupying intruders (at that time, the Ottomans) using the supersonic sound of a whip. This account purportedly originated in Cincu, the Transylvanian village which today houses one of N.A.T.O.’s key combat training zones in Romania.

Saint Georges

Alle Dicu | Duration 20'

In a flat, three women teach each other to look. To look at what? Samples of marble. Their vision and speech become more refined as they make the material their own.

Asphalt

Bogdan Georgian Alexandru | Duration 6’

A former construction worker meticulously recounts the laborious process of paving roads. Shot on Super 8mm, the film reflects on the origins of the roads we travel every day. A vague memory of the hot days when a stretch turns into a vital artery while the air vibrates turbulently.

Lucky Girl Syndrome

Raya al Souliman | Duration 14’ 14"

A self-reflecting collage made up of the director’s thoughts and moods while relocating to an alien, poetic Zurich.

Clare’s Decision Not to Get Up

Teona Galgoțiu | Duration 3’

Why do I have to get up every day and get lost in my routines? A protest against continuous movement.

Surge of Transference

Geo Barcan | Duration 15’

Surge of Transference is a video essay that investigates the expansion of the internet in a small Romanian town, where communities have formed and shifted around the newly imported Western technology. Within this micro-universe, the video traces the rapid transformation of the Internet, from the early days of peer-to-peer software to the upload of online late capitalism.

Bye Bye Confidence

Mădălina Zaharia | Duration 17’ 55"

Within the confines of a small south London flat, the filmmaker decides to finally say goodbye to her already lacking confidence and her friends come together to help her see this task through. Structured as a succession of informal conversations and exchanges between friends, Bye Bye Confidence opens up a space for un-mastering and un-learning expected behaviours.

On the Impossibility of an Homage

Xandra Popescu | Duration 19’

Who is responsible for the portrait, the painter or the subject? Ion Tugearu was a rockstar of ballet in Communist Romania. When discussing the possibility of a shooting, Ion is initially overjoyed. He’s been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But as things progress, he finds it hard to accept the director's approach. He questions Xandra's ability to make the film happen.

The Tempest

Alex Mirutziu | Duration 14’ 36"

A film straddling the contemporary teaser culture and the legacy of Germaine Dulac’s visual style, emphasizing absolute freedom in imagery and analogies. Its brisk pace contrasts with sloppy campness, overacting, and sharp reflections on mortality and solitude. The text and voices in the film reflect a struggle for control over bodies and desires, exploring themes of permeability, the tender and pliable nature of the male physique and the satisfaction derived from the erosion of specific bodily boundaries.

Vakhtanguri

Valeriu Adimei | Duration 16’ 56"

Mindia and Joy meet one night in Tbilisi and start a long distance relationship, even if being queer is dangerous in Georgia. The two dream of a safer place and start a small vintage clothes business to save up. Soon, living in Georgia becomes exhausting, so they flee to Belgium to seek asylum.

A Dying Leaf Should Be Able to Carry the Weight of the World

Thea Lazăr | Duration 10’ 15"

A Dying Leaf Should Be Able to Carry the Weight of the World is a visit to the botanical garden and museum in Cluj-Napoca, a journey through time and space, a discovery of plants with unknown stories, of plants that don't exist anymore, of plants that can tell us as much about the past as they can about the future. Fossils, herbs and botanical illustrations are witnesses of the past, proof of evolution and change, but also prophets of what is yet to come.

Opening Film: TWST – Things We Said Today

Andrei Ujică | Duration 86’

A time capsule of New York City between August 13-15, 1965, framed by the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their first concert at Shea Stadium, all narrated from two teenagers' points of view.

Merman

Ana Lungu | Duration 85’

A female voice is haunting a male gaze. An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WWII until the Revolution: an engineer filming his daughter, a music professor documenting his family and an aristocrat capturing the summer spent with his wife during wartime.

A Fidai Film

r. Kamal Aljafari | Duration 78’

In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

Eight Postcards from Utopia

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz | Duration 71’

Eight Postcards from Utopia is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. In bringing together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism. A film between found poetry and an outdated encyclopaedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae.

Closing film: It’s Not Me

Leos Carax | Duration 41’

For an exhibition that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question : Where are you at, Leos Carax? He attempts an answer – full of questions. About himself and “his” world: I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…

Eat the Night

Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel | Duration 105'

Pablo, a small-time dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality...

Cu Li Never Cries

Phạm Ngọc Lân | Duration 92'

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their uncertain future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history intertwine with a contemplative and poetic perspective.

Malqueridas

Tana Gilbert | Duration 75'

They are women. They are mothers. They are prisoners serving long sentences in a correctional facility in Chile. Their children grow up far from them, but remain in their hearts. In prison, they find affection in other partners who share their situation. Malqueridas builds their stories through images captured by them with cell phones inside the prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.

bluish

Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky | Duration 83’

Errol and Sasha, two somewhat disoriented characters in their twenties, are each aimlessly drifting through a city’s gloomy winter days. Whilst casting a soft gaze on fragments of their everyday lives, people, stories, places and realities start to overlap and intertwine. bluish describes a fragile state of being, a condition or rather an atmosphere of ambiguity and longing.

When the Phone Rang

Iva Radivojević | Duration 73'

Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When the Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s 11-year-old mind, this phone call erases her entire country, history, and identity and hides its existence in books, films, and memories of those born before 1995.

Maia – Portrait with Hands

Alexandra Gulea | Duration 90'

Maia (Alexandra Gulea) was born into a semi-nomadic population under ethnic cleansing. Her granddaughter, the director, who shares the same name, has produced a vivid visual reconstruction of her journey through the 20th century. Her history blends into the larger History.

Fire of Wind

Marta Mateus | Duration 72'

The vine bore fruit and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves is burning.

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