
Beautiful images of southeastern Alaska’s majestic natural landscape drip, flow and take root in the accompaniment of the complex phonetic sounds of the indigenous Tlingit language and a lush sonic collage of local fauna. This landscape grows ever greener each year as the glaciers, like the language, begin to recede.
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After the body of his father is found in a tent in Amsterdam, Marcus searches for an identity through a man he never knew. Tracing parallels with a father who lived outside the system, his own unease with authorities and institutions begins to take shape. As that unease deepens, Marcus pulls the film toward himself, drawn to male voices that promise clarity and strength and to a future he believes he can still redirect.
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In his latest film Rum, Söderquist revisits footage from the shooting of Letters From Silence, placing them in dialog with recently shot footage. Deploying split-screen for the first time, Söderquist’s camera slowly and meticulously travels through sparse interior spaces and passages, evoking both a sense of enclosure and departure.
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Santiago, a young filmmaker, wanders around Caracas lost in a romantic reverie, longing for his girlfriend Carmela, who has left Venezuela. In this autobiographical portrait, Santiago Martín constructs a charming hybrid narrative between film shoots, friends and memories, an atmosphere of words and spaces evoking moments lived.
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Pietro, playing a video-game, is casually exploring a dreamscape of lush forests against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Wandering, he spots a group of players disguised as undead who regularly gather to sing a lullaby, only to be ambushed by a group of hardcore survivalists. Freya (they/them), a developer by profession but a mystic for passion, invites Pietro to visit a sanctuary that they are building—a place safe from all of this chaos—where they guide him into a meditative exercise. The film combines footage from video-game DayZ, custom level designs made in Unreal Engine and internally developed tools for procedural animation.
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Reenacting laboratory data collection processes, Welcome to Set invites you behind the scenes of machine learning, where data becomes drama. This experimental documentary explores how emotion, suspicion, and politics intertwine within the algorithmic practices of security.
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Zhayna travels from Xinjiang to Almaty in search of her missing husband, Yersin, who vanished without a trace when the Kazakhstan-China border closed during the pandemic, and the political winds grew harsh. Reuniting with old companions, she meanders through memories of youth, love, and the shifting world they left behind. – Ivan Ramljak
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The filmmaker’s father and grandfather were born in a place where gold once flowed from rivers and mountains. Now, in this abandoned mining village, haunted by the faded traces of gold rushes and buried money scandals, time has become fluid and an old tunnel serves as a portal across timelines. Three characters find themselves wandering around between past and present, waiting for something to set them free.
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In Kampala’s cinema halls, VJ Emmy is the main event. The film follows this boisterous interlocutor as he brings the art of dubbing to life. Emmy doesn’t just translate; he performs, remixing blockbusters and cult classics with unfiltered commentary that renders them newly meaningful for local audiences.
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When tasked with an open ended writing exercise, Tetsuya Maruyama used the opportunity to write a near diaristic text about his artistic practice. But, crucially, he decided to forgo words, and instead inscribe his meaning through light on a roll of Super 8. FOTOGRAFAR is a film about a glass of water.
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