Playlist

FIDMarseille 2021

A reflective audio‑visual exploration for the 32nd edition of FIDMarseille, held in Marseille, France from July 19 to 25, 2021, capturing the festival’s bold blend of documentary and experimental cinema amid a time of global reckoning.
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Memoria (Memory)

FILM Colombia 2021 · 130 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

One morning, Jessica Holland—a Scottish orchid grower visiting her sister in Bogotá—is awakened by a loud bang. The sound disrupts her sleep for days, causing her to question her identity and leading her from recording studios to jungle villages in an attempt to find her origins.

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A Night of Knowing Nothing

FILM France, India 2021 · 96 min
Payal Kapadia

Through a series of letters read aloud to an absent lover, we learn about the fears, desires, and philosophical identity of a young woman named L, a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Through these words, and via the documentary images collected by her and her peers of contemporary Indian youths engaged in university life, writer-director Payal Kapadia has constructed a brilliantly fragmentary work of witnessing. A Night of Knowing Nothing—winner of the Golden Eye award for best documentary at this year's Cannes Film Festival—is a testament to the inseparability of life, film, politics, and dreams, while functioning as an essential portrait of the ongoing struggle for resistance from discrimination.

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Outside Noise

FILM Germany 2021 · 60 min
Ted Fendt

Daniela doesn't know what to do with her life or where to go. A sleepless person, she tries to find a way out of what she calls a "constant liminal phase." She wanders around her Vienna neighborhood and spends time with two friends, Mia and Natascha, who are visiting her from Berlin.

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Topology Of Sirens

FILM United States 2021 · 105 min
Jonathan Davies

A discovery of cryptic mini-cassettes in her aunt's old house propels Cas on a sonic scavenger hunt through the lush outskirts of Los Angeles, its diverse musical community, and through history itself, for answers.

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Haruhara San's Recorder

FILM Japan 2021 · 120 min
Kyoshi Sugita

A young woman takes possession of an apartment and on the doorstep, greets the former tenant who's chosen not to leave a forwarding address. This woman thus enters the film and haunts it all the way through as we follow her endlessly, present in each sequence.

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Beatrix

FILM Austria 2021 · 95 min
Milena Czernovsky Lilith Kraxner

A young woman spends a lot of time in a house. She is usually alone, sometimes she chats on the phone, she rarely receives visits: a buddy with her boyfriend, a potential boyfriend, wannabe candidates for a room to rent. Until the right roommate arrives…

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Tom Medina

FILM France 2021 · 101 min
Tony Gatlif

In the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses. Tom dreams of becoming a good person. But he's warned by the hostility flung in his general direction, which shows no sign of abating.

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Looking For Horses

FILM France 2021 · 87 min
Stefan Pavlovic

Traveling to Bosnia in search of his origins, filmmaker Stefan Pavlović meets a solitary fisherman. One man has language impairment, the other lost his hearing during the war. Camera in hand, the director films the onset of this improbable and profound friendship.

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From Where They Stood

FILM Germany 2021 · 110 min
Christophe Cognet

This film is putting together an archeology of images as actions, conducting a worried exploration of the capacity and lack of the human imagination when confronted with the most dismal darkness.

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House Of Love

FILM France 2021 · 21 min
Pierre Creton

A 2021 documentary written and directed by Pierre Creton. The film screened at 3 festivals, including Viennale & FIDMarseille.

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Festina Lens

FILM Tunisia 2021 · 21 min
Baya Medhaffar

Prayer doing nothing to their perdition, the traveler and his shadow make their way at the crossroads of images and voices encountered on the road that form and deform as they advance. So many appearances that are each an opportunity to stop for a while, to take a look or to listen.

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Cycle One

FILM United States 2021 · 10 min
Serge Garcia

A drifter wanders the streets as a current of queries invites the viewer to consider daily existence.

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Vida Comienza, Vida Termina (Life Begins, Life Ends)

FILM Switzerland, Argentina 2021 · 87 min
Rafael Palacio Illingworth

Argentinian poet Fabian Casas wrote that everything which rots forms a family. There are two families in this film, each mirroring the other, but time is not there to orchestrate a decomposition. When things end abruptly and unintentionally, they leave a void that resembles a cliff; a movement suddenly cut, like jumping off a spinning carousel and finding the stillness of the ground profoundly disorienting.
This is the exact feeling produced by VIDA COMIENZA, VIDA TERMINA. A man builds a life with a woman and tragedy strikes. What can be done? He had been writing a film, and suddenly both fiction and life start to merge. There is the fictional portrait of the Argentinian pampa, embodied by a gaucho drowning in an economy about to be destroyed, while his wife is consumed by absolute sadness. There is also the documentary portrait of a man who records his family constantly, each moment so precious, while his wife is slowly eaten up by a tumor. A film like an exorcism, an exercise in creating a mirror of one's experience to be able to understand and, if not to heal, at least to be able to create something in full detail, form, and sentiment, to be the one who decides when and how to destroy it for once. (Lucía Salas)

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Jojo

FILM France 2021 · 90 min
Antoni Collot

Danger lurks. 13-year-old Jojo is about to abandon a neuro-syphilitic father to the loneliness of his blindness. These two, accompanied by the fascinating and ambiguous presence of a young nurse, have a few days to say goodbye.

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Ob Scena

FILM Argentina 2021 · 17 min
Paloma Orlandini Castro

Ob Scena is an experimental short documentary returning to academic texts on sexuality written by a psychiatrist in Cuba in the 80s and drawing a link with today's pornography. A reflection on the place of social control discreetly infiltrated in the representation of sex.

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Hand In Hand

FILM France 2021 · 51 min
Mathieu Moon Saura Priscilla Telmon

Duende without an arena, in the shadow of the Méjan chapel in Arles, Mano a Mano is neither a duel nor a duo. But an eloquent hand-to-hand encounter with words. The poetry of life versed directly into the microphones.

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Vikken

FILM France 2021 · 27 min
Dounia Sichov

Vikken is transgender. He's about to take hormones for the first time. He records his voice that will disappear, and summons the figures of the past from all over the world for an intimate dialogue with himself.

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Taxidermisez-moi

FILM France 2021 · 10 min
Marie Losier

Set inside the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris, Taxidermisez-moi sees an ambiguous and apparently playful mirroring between the taxidermied animals portrayed and a series of liminal figures between the feral and human universe.

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Real Time

FILM Austria 2021 · 5 min
Sasha Pirker

Sasha Pirker's Real Time is concerned in a two-fold sense with recording artistic creative processes. Shooting with a Bolex camera, the filmmaker documents the form-finding creation of a drawing in real time.

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Honeymoon (2021)

FILM Japan 2021 · 30 min
Yu Araki

In a playful critique of Japonisme, the craze for Japanese art and design in Europe in the mid-1800s often rife with misunderstanding and projection, HONEYMOON recasts the wedding scene of the opera and film Madame Butterfly. Joining Cio-Cio San (Qinhua Yang) is the photographer Adolf de Meyer (Taro Nettleton) and anthropologist Frederick Starr (Jack Mclean), kneeling seiza-style as broadcast commentators describe the action now set on the lunar base Nagasaki.

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Crashing Waves

FILM Letonia 2021 · 19 min
Lucy Kerr

Crashing Waves follows a testimony from a stunt performer who discusses both the ecstasy and peril involved in their work to defy gravity.

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Tsigele-migele

FILM France 2021 · 15 min
Mili Pecherer

"Once upon a time, 3,000 years ago, a ram died on a mountaintop. Just before, we'd had our last picnic." This poetic animated short revisits a biblical myth in low-res synthetic landscapes, blending the quest for wisdom, happiness, and spiritual reflection through Mili's avatar pilgrimage

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Temporal (Temporary)

FILM México 2021 · 60 min
Edgardo Aragón

Under a charred tree, a young man strikes bones with stones to an electro beat, accompanied by onscreen text. Through this visceral imagery, the film weaves a brief history of ancient Mexican agriculture—marked by forced labor, pillage, and blood. In its final act, it turns to silent, haunting Pacific seascapes, evoking memories of Mexico's "death flights."

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Land Of Warm Waters

FILM Norway 2021 · 82 min
Igor Buharov Ivan Buharov

The Buharovs, as the harbingers of a supra-human world, blend their instinctive cosmos with a kind of quiet poetry to lead the viewer into the Land of Warm Waters and onwards to new dimensions of storytelling.

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Les Yeux Remplis De Nuit

FILM France 2021 · 30 min
Marie Alberto-Jeanjacques

A woman sits in an armchair staring at a mark on the wall, spiraling into a surreal journey. Adapted freely from Virginia Woolf's text, the film interweaves interior and exterior spaces, voiceovers blending a surgeon and Woolf-inspired narration, exploring material agitation and hidden secrets.

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Ire

FILM France 2021 · 24 min
Valérie Massadian

"Ire" — a feminine noun meaning wrath, rage, fury, indignation — is a powerful cinematic chorus: women, framed in tight close-ups, stare into the camera and declare "I am…," voicing their protest against oppression, contempt and violence. Shot in four languages, it becomes a Babelic call to resistance, including the striking gaze of an expectant mother already aflame with rage

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Iliazd

FILM France 2021 · 90 min
Stanislav Dorochenkov

Driven by an eccentric energy and a taste for changes of speed and register, young couple Ilia and LilIa follow in the footsteps of a poet who was born in 1884 in Tiflis and died in Paris in 1975. He was known to the world as Iliazd. His unusual life can only be told in the form of an odyssey.

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Gli Uomini (THE MEN)

FILM France 2021 · 12 min
Christophe Bisson

Inside Le Sépulcre (a former church in Caen), a choreographer manipulates hundreds of photobooth portraits of anonymous men. At first contemplative, her movements grow frenetic—an inquiry into presence, absence, identity, and collective memory.

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Floating

FILM France 2021 · 18 min
Guillaume Lillo

In the cars that pick him up like he hitchhikes, the voice of a young man we'll never – or hardly – ​​see, describes in detail the depression that brought him to the medical health center.

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Black Beauty

FILM Spain 2021 · 29 min
Grace Ndiritu

African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems?

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A Defense

FILM Turkey 2021 · 16 min
Aylin Kuryel

An academic prepares for her court appearance. The state apparatus sneaks into the house of the academic, making her adjust her words, body and gestures.

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Un Faux Roman Sur La Vie D'Arthur Rimbaud (A Fake Novel About The Life Of Arthur Rimbaud)

FILM France 2021 · 58 min
Florence Pazzottu

An interwoven cinematic enactment of Jack Spicer's eponymous long poem, conducted in the alpine village of "La Pomme Chinoise". Local villagers recite, reinterpret, and "translate" the work—written on black cards and loose sheets—against a backdrop of rock music, collective voice and poetic improvisation, exploring the poet as a receptacle and transmitter of external voices

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A Sense Of Justice

FILM France 2021 · 97 min
Swen de Pauw

Inside a French law firm, three dedicated lawyers—Christine Mengus, Nohra Boukara, and Audrey Scarinoff—labor tirelessly to defend immigrants facing deportation and legal uncertainty. Through courtroom scenes and intimate consultations, the film exposes the emotional toll and moral urgency of seeking justice in an often-absurd administrative system

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LA COLLINE (The Hill)

FILM France 2021 · 75 min
Julien Chauzit

Three young people from Marseille, on summer holidays in nearby Martigues, make friends with their summer neighbor, a woman from Paris. With their meeting as a starting point, the filmmaker plays with genre-film formulas to provoke and record a process of awakening and politicization.

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La cure (The Cure)

FILM France 2021 · 81 min
Clément Schneider Simon Rembado

Summertime. While a pandemic spreads overall, Paul, his wife Hélène and his little sister Lisa, isolate themselves in their countryside house. There, they meet old friends: Bruno and his sister Mélanie… Based on Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun play.

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Premier Royaume (First Kingdom)

FILM France 2021 · 91 min
Ioanis Nuguet

Following his time in Bali and Provence, where he faced the loss of both his father (in a diving accident) and his mother (to cancer), Nuguet crafts a poetic, visual journey that blurs life and death. The film becomes a ceremonial dialogue between the living and the deceased, weaving together memory, grief, and ritual.

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Les mues (Water Lily Split)

FILM France 2021 · 69 min
Grégoire Perrier

In a delicate and poetic portrait, Water Lily Split traces the early years of siblings Basile and Hortense. Against a setting of nature's quiet textures—the lapping waters, distant cricket sounds, a pool turned pond, and a giant shell—the documentary-like vignettes explore the brink of language emergence, memory, and the small epiphanies of childhood.

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Le Transformateur

FILM France 2021 · 35 min
Pierre-Edouard Dumora

In November 2009, Dumora walks from his childhood home in Paris's wealthy 16ᵉ arrondissement to the infamous Clichy-sous-Bois electrical transformer where Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré died fleeing police in October 2005. Twelve years later, he transforms this four-hour pilgrimage into a powerful, 35‑minute performative documentary. Silent walking footage is punctuated by onscreen text—police radio clips, trial documents, survivor testimony—creating a haunting critique of social division, police violence, and memory.

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Edouard And Charles

FILM France 2021 · 72 min
Pascale Bodet

Paris, in the early 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends but their adverse circumstances are beginning to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. An idea dawns on him.

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Article 15

FILM France 2021 · 40 min
Marie Reinert

A handheld camera, passed from person to person across Kinshasa's informal laborers and vendors, offers a visceral, immersive journey through a single workday in the megacity. Through gestures, movements, and economic exchanges, the film reveals the pulse and interconnectedness of urban survival.

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Appuyé au mur (Lean On The Wall)

FILM France 2021 · 53 min
Jacques Meilleurat

"Lean On The Wall" follows "Bernard," portrayed by the director himself, as he narrates a personal diary of sexual abuse into an old cassette recorder. He performs various postures—leaning, sitting, dancing—while the film interweaves archival experimental footage, creating a visceral, formalist exploration of trauma and memory.

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Saturn And Beyond

FILM Ireland 2021 · 60 min
Declan Clarke

In Saturn and Beyond, Declan Clarke recounts his early childhood, up until the closing down of the Irish Museum of Broadcasting founded by his father. It seeks to reflect upon the decline of our neurological functions as we seek to develop more rapid and pervasive means of communication through technology.

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Lumbre (EMBERS)

FILM México 2021 · 40 min
Santiago Mohar Volkow

A meditative, four-movement docu-fiction that unfolds as a lyrical portrait of rural tragedy. Following the accidental death of a child by stray bullet during seasonal hay-burning, the film weaves together images of mourners, scorched earth, intimate faces, archive visuals, cremation rituals, and lingering embers—evoking grief, memory, and the threshold between life and death.

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Husek

FILM Argentina 2021 · 89 min
Daniela Seggiaro

A multi-million dollar urbanization project for the indigenous territory of Gran Chaco threatens to relocate Wichi families and disrupt their ancestral way of life. Chief Valentino and his grandson refuse to comply, which nudges architect Ana to own up to her role in their displacement.

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Fantasma, Animal

FILM México 2021 · 16 min
Clemente Castor

A machine that houses a ghost. The artificial body. Through an exercise in transmutation, an elderly human performs a ritual that allows them to deposit their essence into the body of a drone. In the machine's gaze, a new illusion is reconfigured.

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A Day In A Life

FILM France 2020 · 15 min
Larry Clark Jonathan Velasquez

Paris. Gabrielle and Enzo, two teenagers from the same gang, meet in front of the school. Cigarettes, the affirmation of sexual desire, and the discovery of new drugs mark their day. Each, in their own way, celebrates or mourns a childhood that is disappearing.

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Orpheus

FILM Russia 2020 · 116 min
Vadim Kostrov

In the last days of the summer of 2019, young filmmaker Vadim returns to his hometown to say goodbye to his first love Anya. This starts the cycle of ritualized farewells that follow, each one exploring the meaning of endings in a different light.

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Lacerate

FILM Italy 2020 · 16 min
Janis Rafa

Lacerate blends elements of realism with a dreamlike, symbolic dimension, portraying the extreme decision of a woman who turns from victim into executioner.

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Just A Movement

FILM Belgium 2020 · 111 min
Vincent Meessen

Juste un Mouvement is Vincent Meessen's free take on La chinoise, the 1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard, and a 'film in progress of making itself' in Dakar.

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Antelopes

FILM France 2020 · 8 min
Maxime Martinot

Renowned French novelist Marguerite Duras's tale of the demise of thousands of antelopes uses powerful imagery that's drawn on by filmmaker Maxime Martinot to make a statement about the nature of surveillance in today's world. A superbly crafted and visually arresting treatise on herd mentality, surveillance and freedom.

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I See Red

FILM Italy 2020 · 11 min
Adrian Paci

In a pulsatinf red screen the words of actress Daria Deflorian transform the absence of images into a dramaturgical and listening space.

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Flowers Blooming In Our Throats

FILM Italy 2020 · 9 min
Eva Giolo

A 16 mm cinematic poem shot just after the 2020 COVID‑19 lockdown: a group of friends perform domestic gestures—touching, cooking, spinning a toy top—captured through an eerie red filter. The film explores the fragile balance between tenderness and latent violence in everyday life.

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Her Name Was Europa

FILM Germany 2020 · 76 min
Anja Dornieden Juan David González Monroy

Aurochs is the name given to the wild ancestor of modern cattle. The aurochs has the distinction of being the first documented case of extinction. The last known wild aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest in Poland in 1627. Hunting and the introduction of domesticated cattle led to their decline and disappearance. Their value, however, derived not just from them being a source of sustenance. Traits that were attributed to the animal, such as speed, strength, and courage, imbued it with great symbolic power. Some of their body parts were ascribed with supernatural powers. The skin of the forehead and a cross-shaped bone inside the heart were prized for their magical properties. Those who carried them became possessors of the animal's traits.
In the 20th century efforts to bring back the Aurochs from extinction began to materialize.

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Podesta Island

FILM France / Belgique / Micronesia 2020 · 23 min
Stéphanie Roland

Podesta Island exists according to Google Earth.
Podesta Island does not exist according to Wikipedia.
Does it really exist? In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas?
The film Podesta Island paints the portrait of a controversial phantom island by confronting documentary sources with the narratives and legends inspired by this island. This exploration, where satellite imagery and live action intertwine, brings us closer to Terra Incognita and celebrates the beauty of imaginary geography.

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Under Construction

FILM Belgium 2020 · 12 min
Jorge Léon

In Brussels, February 2020, a man who arrived in Belgium in 2015 narrates his persistent sense of alienation. As he recounts his experiences, an inspector documents his testimony amid a city under perpetual transformation. The film reflects on migration, bureaucracy, and the evolving urban environment.

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Espacios Seguros (Safe Spaces)

FILM Italy 2020 · 20 min
Iván Argote

Iván Argote conceptually links Bogotá and Paris through street collages denouncing femicides in France. The voice of Diana Rodríguez Franco (Bogotá's Women's Affairs Secretary) accompanies these images, weaving a powerful transnational critique of gender-based violence.

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Have You Seen That Man?

FILM Rumanía 2020 · 15 min
Yotam Ben-David

An eight-year-old boy finds a dead man's body at the top of a mountain. As he knocks on the doors of the village, trying to solve the mystery, a portrait of a village is revealed – a place in transition between the traditions of the past and the violence of contemporary reality.

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This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

FILM Lesotho, South Africa, Italy 2020 · 120 min
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
In the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow named Mantoa eagerly awaits her son's return from working in the South African mines, only to learn of his demise instead. Yearning for her own death after the loss of her last remaining family member, she puts her affairs in order and makes arrangements to be buried in the local cemetery. Her careful plans are abruptly upset by the news that provincial officials intend to resettle the village, flood the entire area, and build a dam for a reservoir. Mantoa resolves herself to defend the spiritual heritage of the community.
Writer/director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a vivid and ethereal meditation on life, death, and the power of the human spirit. Veteran actress Mary Twala Mhlongo commands the screen, beautifully portraying a woman fighting her last and most important battle. This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection creates an ode to a way of life perhaps soon to disappear in the name of progress and guides us through a world where the dead co-exist with the living.

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Moffie

FILM South Africa 2019 · 99 min
Oliver Hermanus

An Oliver Hermanus film, following a conscript through his military service in the South African Defence Force in the 1980s.

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Nafi's Father

FILM Senegal 2019 · 109 min
Mamadou Dia

Two brothers fight over their children's wedding. Tierno's role as a father and his responsibility as a spiritual leader are at odds.

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America Street

FILM United States 2019 · 74 min
Idrissou Mora Kpai

In downtown Charleston, South Carolina, black owned convenient stores like Joe's have almost disappeared. Joe is fighting to keep his but he knows that its survival depends on the survival of his local community.

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Una Carta Al Tío Boonmee

FILM Thailand 2009 · 17 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Shot in Nabua, in northwestern Thailand, it chronicles a bloody battle between communist peasants and the totalitarian government. Apichatpong Weerasethakul evokes the dangerous cycles of violence and repression, along with the hope of remembrance and perpetual rebirth.

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Phantoms Of Nabua

FILM UK 2009 · 11 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly struck by lightning. As night falls, the silhouette figures of young men emerge, they are playing with a football raging with fire. They take turns kicking the ball which leaves illuminated trails in the grass. The lightning on the screen flickers amid the fire and the smoke rising from the ground. The game intensifies with each kick that sends the fireball soaring into the air. Finally the teens burn the screen and crowd around it to witness the blazing canvas, behind which is revealed the ghostly white beam of a projector. Phantoms of Nabua is part of the multi-platform Primitive project which focuses on a concept of remembrance and extinction and is set in the northeast of Thailand.

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Mobile Men

FILM Thailand 2008 · 4 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Two young men in a pickup truck are filming themselves. Belonging to different parts of the world, through the use of a camera they are discovering each other. In a windy atmosphere, they initially film each other with close ups on parts of their bodies, then, little by little, they shoot their full figures. As the camera lenses change, a landscape of rice fields and a cinema crew get into the frame. The camera then reshoots the road and the men, as if we were witnessing a film rehearsal. When the frame goes back to shoot one of the two main characters who has tattoos over his body, the man lifts his shirt up and tears off a wired microphone that is taped to his chest. He then pastes it on the tattoo and cries out from the top of his lungs. The microphone picks up the heavy wind noise and the camera moves to captures his face. He looks directly at the camera, smiling.

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Sud Vikal (Vampire)

FILM Thailand, France 2008 · 19 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

If exists, apart from the Vampire Finch of the Galápagos Islands, Nok Phii would be the only species of bird that feeds on other animals' blood. In several of the local tales, Nok Phii is portrayed as an aggressive nocturnal predator. In some stories, it even attacks human. In 2007, a sighting of a male and female Nok Phii in a remote mountain was reported by the villagers in the north of Thailand. There was a speculation that this was the only pair left in the world. This supposedly small with large eyes bird has never been captured, dead or alive. There are no remains. Without concrete evidence, this rare bird might only be an imaginary animal associated with alluring danger and mythical aura. VAMPIRE is a dream of the strange avian and its habitat, an impression of a voyage to capture this unusual treasure on film.

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Emerald

FILM Thailand 2007 · 11 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.

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Luminous People

FILM Thailand 2007 · 15 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A trip along the Mekong River (on the border between Thailand and Laos) to scatter the ashes of a dead father. On the soundtrack, a crew-member recalls how his late father visited him in a dream. The presence of the dead, the memories of the living.

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La Cautiva

FILM France 2000 · 113 min
Chantal Akerman

A handsome, idle, and hopeless neurotic lives in a labyrinthine, half-renovated Paris flat with his ailing grandmother, a faithful family servant, and Ariane Rey, his willing captive, the object of his obsessive jealousy and unquenchable desire. Inspired by Marcel Proust's La prisonnière .

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Ali In Wonderland

FILM France 1975 · 59 min
Djouhra Abouda Alain Bonnamy

Ali in Wonderland openly exposes the conditions of migrant workers in Paris and its surrounding areas in the 1970s. It is a cry of rage at French society, that wonderland where exploitation and racism thrive and the colonial spirit lives on.

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Tahia Ya Didou

FILM Algeria 1971 · 76 min
Mohamed Zinet

In a bar, while visiting Algiers with his wife, Simon recognises an Algerian man that he tortured in the past. Mixing fictional scenes with archival images, Mohamed Zinet deviates from a city commission to make what will be his only, unclassifiable work, rather disliked by the authorities at the time, before it became a cult film and was restored and digitised in 2016.

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Hier. (2020)

FILM Netherlands 2020 · 27 min
Wendelien van Oldenborgh

In an empty museum, a number of young women reflects on transnationality and living in diaspora. In an environment where colonial history is still tangible, they smoothly and confidently navigate between politically charged considerations and personal stories. Thekrontjong [Indonesian diaspora music] improvisations by the band FRED is the musical layer in their collaboration.

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Los Desnudos (The Nudes)

FILM France 2012 · 13 min
Clarisse Hahn

Landless Mexican peasants invent a new shape of fight by using their body as place of political and social resistance: Since the government does not want to recognize their existence, they will demonstrate completely naked in the streets of Mexico City, twice a day, until they are proved right.