A body covered with a bloodstained sheet lies on a ping-pong table, set on what appears to be a stage. Based on this image found in the Colombian news archive, this documentary piece shows how death, paradoxical and ineffable, has inhabited a place not intended for it: the León de Greiff Auditorium at the National University of Colombia.
The film follows an encounter between the ghost of a possessed girl, trapped for centuries within a stone, and the director’s 102-year-old grandmother, confined to her living room and waiting for death. The ghost, tied to a Polish folktale about the mysterious Kontrewers stone, becomes drawn to the pious older woman, mistaking her for its long-lost mother.
The young Taiwanese woman Kai visits an alternative farming project in rural Germany. When vegetable soup is served, she discovers a swastika embossed on her spoon. Nobody at the table knows where the spoon came from — or what to do with it now.
It's an ordinary day at a racing stable nestled in the mountains, two hours from Bangkok. Humans and animals repeat their daily tasks. As the routine unfolds, a portrait of bodies working under strict discipline takes shape: racehorses in the foreground, with jockeys as a counterpoint, the two mirroring each other.
