Chile, France, Belgium | 2023 | 85′
Cinematographers: Andrés Jordán, Mathieu Gaudet | Director: Francisco Rodríguez Teare
Otro Sol is a group of real and invented characters trapped in a film. It is also a purgatory of retired thieves set on the coast of the Atacama Desert. The film is circular and seeks to invent as well as verify the myth of Alberto Cándia, a Chilean international thief who stole the Cathedral of Cadiz in Andalusia in the late 1980s.
Hungary, Romania, Croatia | 2023 |83’
Cinematographer: Gergő Somogyvári | Director: Gergő Somogyvári
On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds: Fanni, a 19-year-old transgender teenager, and Laci, a 60-year-old homeless man. Together, they form a cantankerous, convivial, makeshift family life, supporting each other as father and daughter through hardship and change.
UK | 2024 | 70’
Cinematographer: Gregory Oke | Directors: The Neurocultures Collective & Steven Eastwood
A B-Movie film club host introduces a lost animated horror movie; a young woman fills out questionnaires and watches sequences in an eye-tracking test; an office worker goes about their life, masking their autistic nature; a picture book tells the story of an enigmatic dog-human spirit watching over people with disabilities. Co-created by the Neurocultures Collective and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, ‘The Stimming Pool’ is an experimental and sometimes magical hybrid film whose drifting form is built around the concept of an autistic camera.
Japan | 2023 | 53′
Cinematographer: Yoshiko Takano | Director: Kaori Oda
In Okinawa, where intense ground fighting occurred at the end of World War II, there are many natural caves called “GAMA”. Mitsuo Matsunaga, a peace guide and collector of remains from the Battle of Okinawa, describes how civilians involved in the war sheltered in GAMA.
Germany | 2023 | 88’
Cinematographer: Claire Pijman | Directors: Jasmin Herold & Michael David Beamish
In the middle of the barren Utah desert is the Dugway Proving Grounds, a top-secret military testing facility. Bound to this place are the lives of a soldier, a military chaplain, a father searching for his missing son, and a survivor of the atomic bomb. Their fates and fortunes reveal a country scarred by war.
Morocco, Egypt | 2023 | 97’
Cinematographer: Hatem Nechi | Director: Asmae El Moudir
Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father, and grandmother tell about their home and their country. Slowly, she unravels the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life.
