When a house cat begins to fear the gentle owner who feeds him, he starts noticing the subtle cracks in the man’s behaviour and realises the thing he lives with is slowly deciding whether to keep him… or silence him.
A young 20-year-old, George. Spends most of his time daydreaming about the idea of falling in love until he meets Olivia. Watching a young couple grow together, through the most joyful and unhappy times of being in a relationship.
When therapy and medication fail to provide any relief for severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) – better known as electroshock therapy – can offer a solution. Mie and Tine have been struggling with depression for years. Their hopes are now pinned on ECT. How are they experiencing their treatment? Are they gradually regaining their old selves? And how are they coping with the fog that remains after an ECT session?
"Oceani" is a documentary that tells the story of Manuel Sirianni, a young boy with autism who, thanks to assisted communication, is able to express himself and share his view of the world. Directed by Valentina Pellegrino and Barbara Rosano, the film follows his journey of growth and daily challenges, showing how this particular form of communication—which requires the assistance of a facilitator—allows Manuel to overcome language barriers and connect with others.
The PYRKAL ammunition factory once supplied wars all over the world. Today, it lies abandoned. As a high-risk decontamination effort uncovers explosives still buried beneath its soil, four former workers guide us through its ruins and their memories – their pride in their craft, their sorrow for its tragedies, and the contradictions of making a living producing death.
The beginning. A one-take shot, images of Famagusta, as Pyrros Theofanopoulos recites the text of Niki Marangou, while the gaze of Niovi Charalambous describes the dead city. Composing images and secret connotations that map out the signs of people as they travel, following the routes of memory. Words flow across divided grounds and lands of exile, yearning to overcome separation lines and borders. Niki in Cyprus, Niki in Berlin.
An underground archive in the Arctic, museum artefacts awaiting their fate in a storage room in the Netherlands, hidden rock markings in a forest in Switzerland, and a neuroscience study on emotion, reveal a world paused, turning inward, waiting to be shaped by memory and nature; a liminal space between what’s lost and what’s yet to come.