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.
On the train trip home to Kyiv, a filmmaker Mariia Volodymyrivna Ponomarova searches for her lost patronymic — a middle name connected to her father. Questioning the leftovers of patriarchy and the postcolonial legal inertia with witty irony, Mariia explores the fragility of tender family bonds.
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.
