Borders

June 2026 Issue

Borders define and divide. They separate, contain, and protect—but they also reveal, contrast, and give form. A border is never neutral. It marks a threshold: between inside and outside, self and other, signal and noise. This issue invites films that explore borders across scales—biological membranes, political frontiers, cultural lines, perceptual limits. We are interested in works that examine how borders are drawn, enforced, resisted, dissolved, or reimagined. What happens at the edge? Where does one system end and another begin? Can a border be porous, unstable, or generative? From cells to nations, from identities to ecologies, from visible lines to invisible thresholds—this issue seeks films that engage the contradictions of borders: as sites of separation and connection, of violence and transformation, of definition and possibility.

Sleep Dealer (2008)

Alex Rivera United States, Mexico 2008
FILM

Monarch Scales

Alexis Gambis United States, Mexico, Canada 2019
FILM

Those Next to Us (2023)

Bernhard Hetzenauer Austria, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland 2023
FILM

Pasta Negra (2025)

Jorge Thielen Armand Canada, Venezuela, Italy, Colombia 2025
FILM

Liberland (2021)

Isabella Rinaldi Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Lithuania 2021
FILM

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Ania Mokrzycka United Kingdom, Poland 2023
FILM

Ground Effect (2016)

Nadav Assor Israel / United States 2016
FILM

Snowy Train (2024)

Kim Ji-hwan South Korea, Switzerland 2024
FILM

Axis (2026)

Hind Tukan United Arab Emirates 2026
FILM

Where The World Ends (2021)

Anna Savchenko Belgium, Lithuania, Norway, Croatia 2021
FILM

Before They Meet (2021)

Vytautas Puidokas Belgium, Lithuania, Croatia, Norway 2021
FILM

Radji (2021)

Georg Götmark & John Erling Utsi Belgium, Sweden, Nordway, Croatia, Lithuania 2021
FILM

The Wire (2021)

Tiha K. Gudac Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Norway, Lithuania 2021
FILM

Four Seasons in One (2021)

Annabel Verbeke Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Lithuania 2021
FILM