In 2006, as Israeli shells relentlessly rain down on Beirut, Sariah (13), her older sister Nayla and their mother take refuge in the mountains, making sure not to mention the war raging in Lebanon. Sharp tensions between the three women soon resurface, and the rivalry between the two sisters escalates when Nayla's boyfriend pays her a visit
Deep in Hellfest gigantic metal festival, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.
Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who's slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
Twelve-year-old Jakes runs through the woods, he is lost. Along his way he will come across Amaia, a 27-year-old who offers him shelter at her place. This unexpected union will lead Jakes to face his fears.
Algorithmic typhoons turn images into zombie-like entities, human-flesh eating creatures enslaved by society. However, these images do not seek to rebel; they simply long to dream of eternal life in a disposable world. This is an essay on resurrection and impending doom.
A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best as it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?
An attempt to map a fraught relationship through the use of intricately coded pictographs and schematic abstractions applied onto glazed ceramic tiles and quilted cyanotype fabric. The aesthetics of architectural language are used to reconstruct memories of my family's domestic spaces in the hope to uncover logic to a broken home.
If the right place and time is chosen, a bag of stew can become a terrorist threat.
Guided by a voice that narrates the journey of a woman through the Kurdish mountains, the images delve from the poetic into the political issues inherent to the Kurdish territory as a result of a warlike past and a turbulent present. The materiality of the Super 8 camera and the beauty of distant landscapes immerse us in an almost dreamlike odyssey in which the dark burden that lies behind the bucolic landscapes is slowly revealed.
As every summer, tomato day arrives. Nella and her family reunite to celebrate the family tradition at their summer holiday home in Italy.
A little girl finds toys under a Christmas tree. Suddenly, a toy soldier puts hand under the skirt of a doll. A series of events afterwards show the little girl the true vision of the adult world.
Buenos Aires, 2019. A museum security guard has a premonition of a theft. When consulting with her pendulum, she foresees a sudden climb in the dollar’s value. An unexpected dismissal and the ensuing severance package leads her to connect with a currency exchange house employee.
Esti returns to Oiartzun after spending six years living in Sweden. Even though she had promised herself not to come back, financial instability and job insecurity force her to return. She realises that the town remains unchanged, and Esti is unwilling to adapt.
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident.
This film sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
An unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other, offering an unprecedented look at right—wing activists as they search for purpose and power—with dire consequences.
Film between reality and excess. A hybrid work mixing autobiography and fiction, in the style of literary autofiction, about one of the most singular characters of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ): Jacques Lanctôt. This film chronicles the life of a man who returns to a place that welcomed and sheltered him during his exile in the 1970s: the eighth-floor room of the Hotel Nacional in Cuba.
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?
On board a ferry, passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time. The journey on the waters seems to expand, the destination shore is postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred. Motion itself is perhaps the only certainty.
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
Sun starved teenagers take on a dreamy trip to the Balearic islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and be a vessel in order to transport it back to their heavy clouded kingdom.
A dead body has appeared in the Arga river. No one has missed him or reported his disappearance. Although it seems like it will be another normal working day for the detective Ana Miravalles, she will experience for the first time the disadvantages of working in her own town. In fact, she suspects that his daughter Eukene might know something. From that moment on, Ana will have to make a decision.
The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic band Itoiz, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success, after having adopted a more accessible pop style which he now disowns. Juan Carlos begins a cathartic journey to the essence of the band, reliving their beginnings in the 70s as a progressive rock group in Mutriku, in an attempt to reconcile with the past.
He develops and imagines a world in a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue about latent, invented images, about the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness. This film explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.
