Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.
Football stadiums have long been the designated places for the escalation of conflicts and every incident during a football match makes for a fire-starting headline material. Meanwhile, the armies of six former Yugoslav republics have been getting together every year for over a decade, for a futsal tournament in the name of peace, in almost complete media silence.
What’s an IKEA table breaking point at the weight of a crumbling friendship? It’s nearly time for dessert, the pressed down wood chips are about to crack. This is cubist history about two friends, a lost table and its replacement.
This is an attempt to rebuild a landscape. Between 1937 and 1943 in Asturias, during Franco's regime, a recreational area and a target shooting range housed a concentration camp. Sharing a pensive observational gaze with the viewer, this essay attempts to resignify the space and revive its political meaning. It is not a question of showing (or filming) the invisible, but rather revealing what is absent from what exists today.
Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko’s poems become the last bridge of communication between them.
Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky on the trail of clues to rebuild their own world. They find no humans; nothing remains but the vestiges of a lost capitalist chimera, a programming failure in a perpetual mechanical loop. But among the images and sounds of the emptied city, they detect a coded transmission, a secret kept by faceless guardians. An afrofuturistic dream, a techno hope.
A woman and a man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.
Sounds and images of the childhood of someone who feels closer to blood-stained knives and rags than to the purity with which childhood is usually conceived when imagining children playing with each other. However, to speak of her childhood is not just to speak of blood, but of her mother and the smells of her flesh.
Elias, 17 years old, suddenly loses his father. In high school as at home, his mother and friends await his reaction which does not arrive. Elias goes on with his life as if nothing had happened.
The process of reliving a memory – and the disintegration that follows, through a series of associative images. Through the effect of its images, the animation attempts to lead viewers into a hypnotic mental and emotional state, where they can experience the manifold character of memory, and the pleasant, yet ephemeral joys of descending into our recollections.
Stitch by stitch, frame by frame and memory by memory, this animated documentary unburies Heleny Guariba’s history, a Brazilian philosopher, theatre director and professor disappeared in 1971 under the dictatorship. It is inspired by the arpilleras, tapestries that emerged from the horrors of Pinochet regime in Chile as a unique form of political protest.
A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
Guoqiang is a socially awkward Instagram poet and occasionally posts his self penned haikus on his Instagram page. In order to get more attention for his haiku, Guoqiang decides to go to local author Augustine Chua’s writing panel to get his feedback. When he eventually gets the chance to ask questions during the Q&A, he comes off confusing instead, creating mass awkwardness.
Nothingness bursts, and lets out something. From a dark, tarry mass beings emerge genderless, looped and alone, in repetitive aimless motions. Everything changes when one of them discovers “something”. It is a red ball taken from within itself. Immediately, the ball starts getting bigger, shifting its shape and hypnotising all of the beings.
In a barren land there is a lone greenhouse with four inhabitants. From a nearby lake a mysterious man emerges and goes on a motorbike hunt for living souls. A girl from the greenhouse, the only one uncaptured, follows the soul hunter into a hidden realm of hallways and ruins. When she finally reaches her enemy's secret lair, she realizes that it was all part of an alchemical ceremony that she herself has to bring to its conclusion.
Satakshi and Madhu, who went to school together, reunite after years of being apart on a night of festivities during the Durga Pujo in Kolkata. As the night progresses, we find out that both of them have feelings for each other, but they are not able to express it. Their secrets are preserved in a notebook entry by Madhu from her school days, and in a postcard that Satakshi sends Madhu six years from this night.
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 Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
Maria, a 48-year-old woman, is trapped between two worlds: one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.
During their special "dates" with their artificially intelligent companions, three young Chinese women reflect on the uniqueness and boundaries of such intimate relationships. This work captures the richness of these bonds, from philosophical questions to intimate moments to the real sense of security and companionship afforded by these artificially intelligent lovers.
Ava and Hélios, friends-in-love, evolve in a golden Paris. At a party, their obsession with each other drives them to excess and manipulation.
Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At La Specola Solare Ticinese federal observatory in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.
A woman is stuck in a world full of stains, spots and repetitive thoughts…
Ming es una joven solitaria de 19 años que trabaja en el turno de noche en una tienda de conveniencia. Un día, cerca de la Fiesta de la Primavera, su vecino Rui la invita a una cena "especial", lo que le hace recordar su pasado oculto.
Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from an immense loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion would then expose the prosthetic limb to a mélange of textures and materials, whilst documenting the whole process. As the moon inches closer and closer towards the sun, the boy sees something unusual reflected on the water's surface… What will become of the limb, and what will become of the video recordings?
Nerea and Martina´s life has not been the same. They have been distancing themselves for a long time. They were best friends but after what happened, they do not know how to behave or what to say to each other. They keep spending time together but their conversation is not the same, they seem like two strangers. One day they decide to go to the beach to spend the day. Loneliness and their inner strength leads them to face their memories and relieve their tension.
The term bergie is a South Africanism that refers to people that are homeless, since they sought refuge on the slopes of Table Mountain in the past (in Afrikaans: Tafelberg). When a law enforcement officer has to remove homeless people to make way for a 10 km fun-run, he has to navigate the complex intersection of the law and personal responsibility when confronted with the dignity of those often ignored.
Liminal space between documentary and visual tale. Alternating archival film material with new footage, this film grants a unique insight into the peaceful and sublime ways of the Universal White Brotherhood.
Rachid lives in an old Factory of Death — as he calls it, in El infierno neighborhood. Nobody really knows why do they call it like that, there are only hypotheses and legends. But Rachid do knows why.
Karen, a young girl obsessed with the influencer of the moment, Kamilah Kay, decides to have surgery to look like her. When she sees that the new Karen is going down so well on social media, she begins to use her savings for more operations. The more closely she resembles Kamilah and the less she resembles herself, her life gets better, until one day something horrible shakes up her new idyllic life.
Izaro and Clara, both 17, work as instructors at a children’s summer camp. On a hot summer’s day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, filled with desire, feels confused as she tries to process what has happened to her and is willing to follow wherever Clara wants to take her.
A peaceful demonstration in Minsk is brutally put down by the police. Two female journalists from an independent Belarusian TV station are the only ones broadcasting the events live. When they are tracked down by a police drone, they face a dramatic choice. A drama inspired by the true story of Katerina Bakhvalova and Daria Chultsova, two Belsat TV journalists who were sentenced to two years in a penal colony in 2020. In July 2022 Katerina's sentence was extended to eight years.
Centuries enduring masculine gazes. Now, these jellyfish turn everyone who looks at them to stone.
Andrea is a young woman with a special profession. When somebody feels paranormal phenomenons at home, she is the only one who can explain them. Nevertheless, on each visit Andrea insists: There are no ghosts, those are echos of someone who was among us once.
After not seeing each other for years, Anna and her former school bully, Jasmine, meet by coincidence when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface and the encounter turns a cheerful dance class into a battle for status where emotions blur Anna’s judgment. Will the bullied become the bully?
According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OPOB), approximately 95 % of Poles identified themselves as believers. At the same time, unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events are possible…
This experimental work portrays a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place. As a reverse sci-fi journey, this work mixes real and fictional archives to guide us, like a stalker, to the outskirts of an invisible place.
At the mercy of the dentist's chair, the protagonist cannot escape the confrontation with pain and the dregs of the miserable human condition. To distract himself, he takes refuge in a fantasised story of fishermen and the sea.
In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls is in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. His plump friends begin to partake as well and a feast begins. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful game begins higher up in the branches.
Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning. The processor is not the newest but still calculates six jumps per iteration. One iteration takes one minute, this is 360 jumps in an hour and 8.640 jumps in a day. I wouldn’t be able to jump so much myself.
As the flashy life of the influencer 33 gets crazier, the canker sore inside her lower lip keeps growing larger…
Rita belongs to a women's choir which is in danger of breaking up because they’ve lost the municipal subsidy that allowed them renting their rehearsal room. Now the group has to decide whether accept or not the sponsorship of one of the companies that pollutes the valley the most.
I never met my grandmother, but I live now in what used to be her house: an empty wall, a doorknob, a dripping tap. As I trace the memory of those objects, my mother's voice invokes a cracked past. I film. Inadvertently, a story that was ours no longer belongs to us.
A robot whose job is to collect mechanical parts from the forest spots a nymph that fascinates and attracts him. Trying to look alike the wood’s creature and get near just to meet her, he starts dressing up with natural elements while a caterpillar decides if the costume is valid or not.
On her way back from a heroic mission, Cassi gets stranded on a mysterious island. She meets an eccentric hermit, and they set off to find her a new boat. The erratic depths of the island force Cassi to reevaluate her quest, while the hermit must face someone from his past.
We have many emotions that have not been observed. "I" has a feeling of fear of being doubted by others because of a cup of coffee that has not been thrown away. The whole film revolves around the observation of this emotion. By depicting four trivial things that are growing up, and tracing the reasons for its formation, "I" finally sees the appearance of this emotion.
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
The forest begins once again where the river is reborns constantly and murmurs in a forgotten tongue. The townsfolks work the dry soil to bring to the surface the trees that once habitated Ulla. They recall the landscape they never got to see. ¿Who will habitate the forest when it starts to be one? ¿Can a forest be seeded? ¿Will someone name it? ¿Where does a town begin?
Two people meet for the first time in a park on a beautiful day. As they engage in conversation and get to know each other, the world from afar seems to tremble.
A fable exploring the relationship between a new form of authoritarian system and its citizens who have adapted to it. A group of people are cleaning a spotless unknown space. The broadcast repeatedly warns them about the coming attack of aliens. A sandstorm invades the space as the foreshadow of the arrival of aliens. However, one person accidentally discovers the mystery hidden in the sandstorm… Do the alien attackers really exist?
