What happens if you force a child to live the life the way should be? Egor grew up a stranger to himself. His wife’s death makes him wake up and take a step towards himself for the first time.
Bored of her own routine, Beyza steps outside hoping the world might offer something different. But the city feels just as dull as her room. As she wanders through streets, she searches for meaning in the ordinary.
Through understated humor and interconnected anecdotes, Shamik navigates bureaucracy, identity, and everyday absurdity while unraveling a deceptively simple misadventure of losing his laptop.
When the wait in a hospital emergency room becomes unbearable, seven patients open up in turn, revealing their pain, fears, frustrations, hopes and fragile expectations through four interwoven choral monologues.
On a quiet Sunday morning aboard the Marmaray, the train traveler drifts into reflection, guided by poems written across different eras. Memories of pleasure and farewell intertwine as literature gives shape to emotions that remain unchanged through time. A short film about solitude and continuity.
Through hip hop, drill, R’n’B and dancehall, young Afro-Neapolitan artists transform marginality into a shared, generative force, reshaping the city as a mixed, vibrant and radically universal place. An act of resistance and deeply decolonial gesture, born from the heart of Naples’ Black community, the film gives a place to voices that have long been silenced or distorted, reclaiming the right to self-narration.
The desert is ablaze. Only the enemy is left there now, with the orphaned child and the rotting carcasses of the herds. Men have double crossed the people. Traded them in for food and provisions. They lie to us, then come to see us in the company of our enemies.
In a city haunted by a winged afreet, a magical book reveals the only way to break the curse: an unblinking gaze, held for twenty-four hours, along a path that leads from Darkness to a day shrouded in mystery. Those who enter this path become entangled in a labyrinth and drawn into a deadly game.