Movies

Thana Faroq returns to Yemen after a decade of geographical and emotional separation. Oscillating between personal drawings, intimate voice recordings and footage from the streets of Yemen, her thoughts about home take on new forms.

A Flock of Rotations hurls the senses into dizzying abstraction. Chromatic patterns flicker and multiply, shrinking until they paradoxically loom large again. The synaesthetic spirals first plummet and then soar ad infinitum, or so it seems. As orientation tilts from horizontal to vertical to diagonal, shifting speeds play tricks on perception.

A surrealist reinterpretation of Amor, a short story by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. The film follows a young woman who, during a routine clothes-shopping trip, loses herself in a dark and mysterious dream world.

What are you gonna do when the world’s on fire? Sit by the pool with a glass of Aperol Spritz and take a selfie for your friends back home? In this satirical take on tourism during the ecological crisis, Viera Čákanyová asks how costly the Ostrich Effect we all seem to suffer from really is? The film features realistic comments from holidaymakers, glossy travel agency advertisements and some dinosaurs, just passing by.

When his two daughters were born, the filmmaker felt an urgent need to return to the valley. The valley of his childhood, of happy summers spent in the mountain pastures, but also the valley of a rupture: the downfall of his alcoholic father.

An innumerable host of working-class angels, invisible to the human eye, labour tirelessly on earth to power our machines and to keep our homes warm and light. When one day some of them attempt to escape, a massive blackout follows and the world as we know it is thrown into chaos.

R. James Edwards documents his experience with the medical system and the ways his disability is viewed and grieved for by outsiders through poetry.

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people in Russia faced a brutal choice: prison, the army – or exile. Margarita, Yuri and their friends are caught in the crosscurrents of history, with no way to return home, but also no place where they feel truly welcome.

Politics meets personal survival, in this urgent, courageous and poetic bricolage diary that traces an exiled filmmaker’s escape from violent repression to the West via Thailand – only to face new forms of onerous control. Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos is not the real name of the director who made Unerasable! And when the film is over, everyone in the audience will understand why.

Emerging from a single interview with Director Moya Bailey’s cousin Dollie Alexander, You Just Watch and See chronicles Dollie’s life from girlhood to achieving her twin dreams of becoming a professional woman and traveling the world.

Omo Baba is an evocative and poignant documentary that delves deep into the father-son relationship, exploring the generational impact of upbringing, trauma, and the pursuit of breaking free from inherited pain. Initiated by Nelson Adeosun, the son, this film seeks to understand his upbringing by examining his father Adedayo's past, revealing a cycle of emotional scars that have persisted through generations.

When a quirky, middle-aged woman interviews for a job at a slick London consultancy firm, she attempts to win over her doubtful millennial interviewers with offbeat honesty and sheer force of personality.

A young woman encounters the "eaters", strange creatures who feed on women's beauty to stay alive.

Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.

A lonely gay boy becomes increasingly frustrated after he falls deeply in love with a straight man.

When news anchor Paul Linnman arrived in Florence OR on November 12th, 1970, he had no idea that the story he was about to tell would forever define his career. Following a small Oregon town, an exploding whale, and the man who made the story famous, Oh Whale is about how we don't get to choose our fate, only what we make of it.

A group of strangely costumed heroes set out on a journey to find a miracle in this absurdist lo-fi musical roadmovie by the politically engaged art collective Chto Delat. Their experimental flashmob, staged in the former German mining town of Hettstedt, channels the political anxieties of our times.

Carrying Breath Between Ancestors layers the Pine Barrens wetlands’ textures, decay, accumulations, and field recordings with a ceremonial hand dance in the sky to create ancestor time and tactile invitations. The word Papashèi, a Lenape word meaning the way breathing moves the body while sleeping/dreaming opens the video. The work speaks to moira’s tactile memory, ancestral land and legacies of familial refuge and disabilities connected to the wetlands. The installation version includes a touchscreen and VibraTech that vibrates with the field recordings.

What is alive in spaces left to re-wild? Dancers extend, gather & throw their grief under late stage capitalism to move towards feeling for what is growing through the cracks.

Song Without Words, a two-movement short film by pianist and artist Olivia Ting, explores the gestures of piano, conducting, and sign language to reveal listening as an embodied act through distorted sound and visual rhythm.