Christine Angot, a novelist, returns to Strasbourg with a camera as part of her literary tour. There she met her father when she was thirteen and spent a holiday with him. It was then when he started to rape her. He passed away a long time ago, but her family still lives at the same place. She decides to knock on their door.
Euxebi’s father was killed during the war. In her youth, Euxebi suffered Francoist repression and, to this day, despite the fact that the dictatorship ended long ago, she has not had the chance to recover the memory of her father. After many years, when they finally open the grave where her father is, Euxebi puts a picture next to his bones.
Mature women speak about their marriage, their “first time”, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own absence of marriage, of children, and thereby, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is extinguishing.
It is a coming-of-age tale where youth grapple with their first profound loss. Filmmaker Yi-Shan’s best friends Chun and Yueh were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days. Chun died three days before Yueh's rescue, prompting Yi-Shan to take up the camera and retrace her friends’ footsteps in Nepal. When Yi-Shan reaches the cave, what awaits her there?
Farah, an Iranian woman is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people's memories in form of Super 8 and 8mm films and records and archives her own, to create an alternative history of Iran.
After an unprecedented social uprising, Chile chooses to write a New Constitution. A colorful assembly will be in charge of writing down the dreams of dignity and social justice of an entire people. What could go wrong?
Two siblings distanced by age find each other through stolen objects and a literary project.
A group of adolescent victims of sex trafficking live temporarily in a shelter in Ecuador hidden in a beautiful forest. Accustomed to a night schedule, the girls spend the day sleeping. Fourteen-year-old Abigail visits a room full of babies, the result of the abuse they have suffered; hers is 5 months old and she carries it as if it were a doll. Small details reveal what they have gone through, invisible but present.
Álex is blocked. He tries to understand his place in the world, his masculinity, his role in caring, the origin of the noises in his grandfather's dreams. Lucia has been blind since birth. She guides Alex.He works as a film audio describer for visually impaired people. His grandfather is over a hundred years old and for months a noise has been disturbing his dreams. He can no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. Lucía helps Alex by showing him how she perceives, how she dreams, how she feels. Alex needs to feel.
With the help of workers and former neighbors, we dig up the layers of memory that have accumulated in the Church of San Miguel in Jaén. We explored how this ancient church has served as a parish, residential block, and workplace, looking into the past to understand the present.
When her estranged father dies, Nadia is forced to revisit the past and the reasons that made him abandon her as a child in pursuit of his own dreams. She leaves Cairo, a city under aggressive construction, to empty her father’s home in Helwan, an industrial wasteland. This is an exploration of grief and loss of places as we know them through the story of a daughter's inability to mourn her father's death, with nothing connecting her to the memory of him but a frail mango tree.
In Russia’s most secretive region, there are many mysteries. Abandoned buildings and an empty landscape hold memories of a strange object built under Stalin’s order. Since then, odd things started happening. Locals found a weird creature called “The Alien from the Urals,” now having its own monument. But, what’s the secret of this creature? Why are people scared to talk about it? And why are villages disappearing?
In this animated miniature on a single sheet, the drawing comes to life before our eyes telling the escape of a wild boar, but of the ways in which people occupy the places that used to belong to nature. Drawn from memories of a walk in the Belgian Ardennes. This film was drawn and animated alone on a single sheet of paper as a performance.
In the early 1960s, a missionary priest disappears in a West African port city as the country prepares for independence. A young officer arrives from France, charged with finding the missing man.His investigation comes up against the sarcasm of the departing colonists, the mistrust of the African nuns and the indifference of the fishermen in the pirogues. Faced with the silence of one and all, the young officer finally leaves the blinding light of the port for the muggy darkness of the forest, where day and night merge.
Ruth was a teenager when her mother passed down her medallion, etched with a golden portrait of Nefertiti. Not only was this medallion an artefact, it was an emblem of her mother’s inconceivable plight; captured in middle school by the Derg communist military regime and raised in a prison camp for years. This story follows her early memories of the Derg Genocide and how she first became in possession of the medallion upon her escape.
A family of four and their dog arrive at a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing buddha statues.
Helicopter footage examines the desert, surveying ancient natural formations and human interventions. Dynamite changes the face of the land. Farmers work their fields. Children play hide-and-seek. Employing archival footage, Undr constructs an eerie narrative of calculated incursion. We cannot help but recall that Palestine remains a land subjected to aerial surveillance that seeks to appropriate the landscape. (Nicholas Davies, IFFR)
This animated-documentary film recounts the memories of a childhood in Split in the 1980s. These are stories retold after Sunday lunch when everyone is in a good mood, stories filled with emotions we can easily relate to. But above all, the film is a moving tribute to the love of a grandpa and grandma who did their best to keep their granddaughter smiling.
Between lines and shapes, hands touch; they explore and experience each other, like wishing to break the boundaries of their own skin.
Having lost the council aid that allowed them to keep their rehearsal venue, the women’s choir that Rita belongs to is about to fold up. Now the group must decide whether or not to accept sponsorship by one of the companies causing the most pollution in the valley.
The Housewives’ Quarter. The Insomniacs’ District. The Bandstand of the Unknown Mother. The Underpass of the Single Women. Our walls pay tribute to those we love.
June finds her first summer job: taking care of Constance, a sensitive little girl who suffers from a lack of affection. The child soon learns to trust her and June gets her hopes up thinking that maybe she can be her nanny for the whole year. However, just as her bond with the child grows stronger, she discovers how harsh class differences can be and what rejection can feel like.
In 1952, Anita Conti, France's first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen, alone with her camera and sixty men for six months. Using her 16mm film rushes and photographs, the film reveals her scientific and yet tender gaze for the workers of the sea. This pioneering woman foresaw the need to protect the oceans.This film explores the modernity of her struggle, as well as the hazy, rhythmic beauty of her writing and photography.
A film team visits the roads and villages of northern Spain during the summer. They are following in the steps of the clandestine group Cantacronache which, in the summer of 1961, during Franco's dictatorship, went around collecting popular resistance songs. Through the prism of oral recollections and sound files recorded in 1961, the two journeys enter into a dialogue mapping the emotional and political geography of a territory in which the wounds of the past are still unhealed.
The session will be accompanied by Amorante's live performance of one of the songs in the film, and other songs from the Elgoibar musician's repertoire, where tradition and modernity go magically hand in hand.
