Twelve-year-old Xiao Ai seems to be the only one affected by the death of an elderly neighbor whom everyone called “Crazy Granny”. In the abandoned apartment of the deceased, Xiao Ai begins to form a connection with her neighbor and uncover her past.
The Asturian mining regions face a threatening waste incineration project. Through the flames, we glimpse the past of a territory that has changed profoundly.
When Rodrigo was a child, he would eat at his grandmother Marité's house and wait until his aunt Montse came home from work. Without sitting down, Montse would fill a plastic bag with a loaf of bread, a container of food, empty plastic bottles, and a hot brick wrapped in newspaper. She was going to take the food to someone. One day, she decided to take Rodrigo with her on one condition: no talking. Eighteen years later, he remembers nothing.
An intimate portrait of a city that no longer exists and another still under construction. Through celebrations, protests, everyday gestures, and images from the past, the film traces Gijón's transformation: from an industrial city to a tourist destination, from a battleground to a stage for spectacle. Faced with this transformation, the filmmaker returns to the plaza of his childhood and questions collective memory: who constructs it? What is forgotten? What remains outside the frame?
In this ‘Love Letter to Brum’ we will explore the diverse and creative aspects of the city, looking at it through the eyes and words of those that have been brought up here.
An aging Osho commune in rural Germany. The dream of enlightenment and free love still echoes, but the winds of change are impossible to ignore. Wahhab is the caretaker of this community and faces the slow fading of things with his unwavering cordless drill.
Four friends whose lives have taken them in different directions meet again. United once more, they enjoy the time together, reminiscing about past adventures and talking about their current jobs, love lives, problems, and dreams. In the process, painful memories resurface, and injuries, wounds, and scars become visible. Over several years, Elsa Deshors films the meetings with her friends - a film like a road trip that shows us how difficult it is to be a female read person, and how friendship, mutual understanding, and support help us to come to terms with the past and find a way towards the future.
A view of the desktop. A text read aloud via Google Translate opens up a digital labyrinth of nested folders. Project folders lead to subfolders, images overlap, scenes appear and disappear again. While searching for order, the system threatens to collapse. Between self-staging, archival chaos, and loss of control, a cinematic essay emerges that opposes imposed order and inner overload. The paradox is that it was produced by the very system it questions.
In 2022, the Statue of Peace "Nujin" was erected at the University of Kassel, honouring the countless female victims of the Asia-Pacific wars. However, shortly after International Women's Day in 2023, the university administration abruptly removed the statue - without public explanation. Outraged, citizens and students formed the "Save Nujin" initiative.
It has to be loud and fast! Young people sample and dance against the backdrop of East Germany's past. Their social media feeds are popular, widely shared, and often liked. They symbolize rebellion and youthful revolt, but what system exactly are they trying to challenge with the speed and volume of their music?
Inspired by Jonas Mekas' film diaries, a film was created as a collaborative work of remembrance. Where refugees from the GDR were once housed, young refugees now live again in Marienfelde. Filmmaking itself becomes a search for a voice to narrate one's own life, while the question of where we feel at home hangs over everything.
A region’s beauty gradually reveals an oppressive visual and auditory human presence and the scars inflicted by destructive exploitation. What if this reality wasn't the end?
Through a simple juxtaposition of words and images, Charles-Émile Lafrance and Romy Bélisle give us a coming-of-age story distilled to its purest components, emphasizing the essence of being aware of the passing of time. Romy Bélisle’s writing grants us access to her inner self, to the universal significance of the end of adolescence, to one world dying so that another can be born. Her words are paired with images of her last summer before heading toward adulthood, captured by a warm and discreet camera. These seemingly mundane fragments contrast with the breadth of emotions conveyed by her entries, and from this tension crystallizes the underlying goal of immortalizing what is about to disappear with the maturity and clarity we all wish we had.