African American volunteers in Jasper, Texas work to overcome their community's history of racial violence and reclaim dignity through grassroots projects, museums, and memorials following the 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr.
In a remote outback Australian town, a brave queer community rallies to keep their vibrant pride weekend alive. Told through three locals’ stories, this film is a sharp, heartfelt look at resilience, belonging, and hope against the odds.
Sabrina Schiffers is writing a travel guide about Bayreuth, but then the boundaries between public and private space, and between future and present, begin to blur.
The lamentations of a missing person’s mother lead a murderer suffering from amnesia to question his actions. He travels to the spot in the jungle where he murdered and buried his most recent victim.
An artist’s attempt to recreate experimental filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil from memory. Working from fragments, the film weaves together into an engrossing narrative. It follows patterns of thought through material such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, WG Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and combines it with personal, intimate footage, images of the Welsh landscape, San Francisco, and of course, Chris Marker’s favourite animal.
An island in the middle of nowhere, horizon, sea, trees, earth—and screens. What to refer to, what to orient oneself by? A stream of consciousness between superficial observation and introspection in search of orientation.
A surreal journey into the complex relationship between indigenous peoples and the unstoppable force of technological progress. The film shows various stages of technological development and its effects on indigenous populations.
A short film that explores the concept of “gender ideology” as invoked by global political and cultural leaders. It opens with provocative quotes from figures such as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán, and others — e.g., “They are planting a time bomb in our national structure.”
An alien student enrolled in an exchange program comes to Earth to experience a real life human school. However, upon arrival they are quick to be othered by the terrible, horrifying beasts known as middle schoolers. An unsuccessful attempt at fitting in later, they are approached by a lone boy that knows exactly how it feels to fall outside of the norm.
The 80-year-old Ms. Pupak lives in a retirement home in Dieburg, Hesse. The film shows her everyday life in slow motion and gives her space for honest and self-reflective words about her past, the present, and the last stage of her life.
Bakobi just wanted to sleep, but she is awakened by a loud noise. A vacuum cleaner monster appears and she tries to escape. After an exciting chase, she is lured back into the house by the smell of her favorite food. Her meal makes her forget all about the scary vacuum cleaner, so she can finally fall asleep and dream again.