Two women exchange cinematic letters that connect the past and present. Heidrun, a Viennese woman, and Sara, a Colombian migrant, live in the city at different times—whether in fiction or reality is not always clear.
If the current historical moment had a voice, would it be an artificial intelligence voice? Jennifer Mattes undertakes a survey of human consciousness, bringing impressions of life and death together with images of pure technology and non-living matter.
As Jenny, an aspiring chef, sits down for a Lunar New Year dinner with her family, she is engulfed by the disassociation with the language and culture of her Chinese heritage. She grapples with guilt and an overwhelming pressure to belong, but can she escape the surreal pageant of her own creation?
Unseen Territories is a documentary and community-driven performance project that reimagines public space and the stories it carries. In Las Vegas, on Southern Paiute land, fourteen BIPOC artists challenge the colonial symbols that dominate the city, creating work that asserts identity, memory, and presence. The project treats artistic practice as a form of witness, showing how acts of creation can preserve histories and lived experiences that have long been marginalized. As the flags are made and brought into public view, they animate the landscape with joy, resilience, and pride, insisting that the complexity of these communities cannot be simplified or erased.
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, in the heart of World War II, an extraordinary woman named Irena Sendler risked everything to save more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She gave them new identities, Christian names, and a chance to live, hiding them with families willing to protect them. To keep their real names from being lost forever, she wrote each one on a small piece of paper and placed them in jars, buried under a tree - a silent promise that one day they would be found again. When the war ended, she devoted herself to bringing those children back to their surviving families. She carried out her mission under a single name: Jolanta.
David is enjoying a calm day at home reading and relaxing until he spots something unusual outside his window: a suspicious stranger hanging out on the corner in front of his house. Who is this hooligan, and what is he doing here? David intends to find out. This film and its characters are a metaphor for the endless cycle of child abuse where most children who are abused tend to grow up and abuse their own children.
L’Art du Bigidi is a short documentary exploring the world of Gwoka — a Guadeloupean tradition of dance, music, and resistance, rooted in the island’s colonial history and natural upheavals. At the heart of the film is dancer Lena Blou’s philosophy of the bigidi, a Creole term evoking unstable balance; the precarious state of slipping without falling. It’s a way of moving in a place where the ground literally and figuratively shifts - a metaphor for life in Guadeloupe, shaped by slavery, colonisation, earthquakes, tornadoes, and droughts. Two dancers - Lena Blou and Ovide Carindo - embody this principle. Their bodies tremble, almost fall, then recover, improvising in response to the surroundings. Sonny Troupé, a contemporary Gwoka musician, composes to their movements, echoing the traditional drum-dancer dialogue in which the dancer dictates the musical score. Together they weave the mesmerising vision of a radical philosophy from a land that knows how to dance with uncertainty.
How do you tell the life story of a photographer? By showing his photographs and telling the stories behind them. Montpellier, Marseille, Alès, Cannes, New York, Laos... From encounters with free-spirited street artists to cinema stars and abandoned sailors, this is the rock'n'roll ballad of Itinérances' most loyal companion: Patrice Terraz.
How to feel is a Machinima short film made during the Nouvelle Bug vol.2 residency. The movie is shot almost entirely within the video game The Sims 4. The story is about a girl who is not able to love herself and is forced by circumstances to learn how to stay in her body, breathe and feel alive. The more she learns, the more her presence comes to life, along with the eye of the camera.
A frustrated young woman, convinced she can communicate with ghosts, decides to kill herself, return as a spirit, and finally prove herself to her dubious friends.