15’ | UK
Cinematographer: Jarred Alterman | Director: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and imperme¬able laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
11’ | Croatia
Cinematographer: Pavo Crncevic | Director: Karla Crncevic
My father used camera just once in his life time. After 30 years he ask me to digitise VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.
62’ | 2023 | Serbia
Cinematographer: Dragana Jovanović | Director: Dragana Jovanović
What happens when beauty falls asleep? Aurora’s Dream explores the collective unconscious during a period of contemporary crisis.
Individual participants share their most vivid dreams. The subconscious narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of our present era, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale to the fore.
12’ | Greece
Cinematographers: Christina Moumouri, Giorgos Valsamis, Neritan Zinxhiria | Director: Neritan Zinxhiria
Before his death in 1932, a monk created his own camera in one of the most isolated places in the world. 90 years later, a filmmaker discovers and reconstructs the found footage.
91’ | Austria, Spain
Cinematographer: Raquel Fernández Nuñez | Director: Helin Celik
It centers on three Jordanian women who barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.
65’ | Estonia
Cinematographer: Erik Põllumaa | Director: Liis Nimik
In rural Estonia, closely observed seasons of farming, homesteading and childrearing reveal life’s daily rhythms as a harmonic chorus of nature and community where the world is in balance and every living thing has a unique purpose.
72’ | Colombia, Romania, France, Germany
Cinematographer: Theo Montoya | Director: Theo Montoya
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
8’ | France, Ukraine
Cinematographers: Sarp Uzunoglu, Asma Benazouz | Director: Marta Smerechynska
What to take, what to leave? How important are material possessions when you’re trying to save your life? Packages from Ukraine – filled with everything and nothing – wait patiently under a bridge to be found, while a voice stirs memories of frivolous and treasured personal effects, in an apparent heart-breaking farewell letter to Kyiv.
90’ | Italy
Cinematographers: Tanmay Chowdhary, Andrea Josè Di Pasquale, Damon James Duke, Jessica Steiner | Director: Susanna della Sala
In the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways.
60’ | France, United States, United Kingdom
Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier | Director: Wang Bing
Wang Xilin, China’s most important modern classical composers who was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. Besides having a life of suffering, he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.
17’ | Austria
Cinematographer: Simon Veroneg | Director: Assaf Gruber
Our mysterious protagonist tentatively plays a familiar melody. It’s a song known to many of us, recognisable from dance floors across Europe – but how many of us have ever bothered to listen to its remarkably imperialistic lyrics?
92’ | Finland
Cinematographer: Sari Aaltonen | Director: Susanna Helke
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care is a documentary film with choral tableau vivant scenes juxtaposed with documentary episodes, capturing the current crisis in the Finnish elderly care sector. With its dark humor, and at times grim but poignant moments, the film portrays the unravelling of the ethos behind caring for the elderly citizens of a Nordic welfare society, illuminating the mismatch between the ethical and economical foundations of care work.
