Movies

A day inside the charming hair salon of Veronique Gizard, on the corner of Rue de Bagnolet and Rue Planchat in Paris’s 20th arrondissement. Owner, stylist and client shyly gaze into the lens of legendary Viennese filmmaker and photographer Friedl vom Groller. The salon’s distinctive character lives on in 16mm – it closed its doors in mid-2025 after 20 years, and the shopfront now houses a cafe.

A lonely woman sings to her laptop. Its vibrations are her companionship.

Who can deny the splendour of taxidermied shoebill storks and rose-breasted grosbeaks staring back at you in a natural history museum? This essayistic short, however, critically probes the imperialist and colonial constructs that hide behind the hand-painted façades and displayed birds that dominate Western museums.

At a demonstration in Berlin against the genocide in Gaza and the German arms supplies contributing to it, protestors are violently arrested, wrestled to the ground, sprayed with pepper spray and captured on camera. This essay pauses those overwhelming moments and isolates what is happening in order to examine it. Drawing from Fanon and Butler, among others, it offers a pointed interrogation of double standards, the state’s monopoly on violence and protesting under constant surveillance.

More than 100.000 people follow the two-wheeled adventures of iamdeathrow on Curaçao online. Filmmaker Tittel del Mar creates an intimate portrait of Alexander Hanst. When he’s not riding, he struggles with the pressure of becoming a better version of himself. What is the difference between the version of you that you show to the world, and the person you would really want to be?

Distant reminiscences of a devastating hurricane float in a ghostly space. Indecipherable words, fragmented remembrances, foggy memories from a strange home.

“We are descended from the original inhabitants of this land, and that’s something to be proud of!” says one of the members of SCV Wajonong. Since the 1980s, this cultural association has been the go-to place in Rotterdam for celebrating and preserving the culture and traditions of Indigenous Surinamese people.

A reclusive woman observes her neighbour Kankan’s daily routine through a hole in the wall. What begins as a reassuring ritual takes a turn when fragments of memories start seeping into her reality. As both characters mirror each other across incompatible worlds, the boundary between dreams, fears and reality blurs.

Dressed in couture from various Dutch fashion brands, the characters wander through a polder, angle for fish in a small brook, and contemplate the typical Dutch light.

In extreme cold, the human body can turn against itself through paradoxical undressing: failing nerves mistake freezing for heat, compelling the dying to shed their last protection. In 水托邦 (Hydrotopia), hydrophones frozen into a block of ice capture the material disintegration of their frozen body as a projected film gradually emerges into clarity.

Soldiers from both sides of Sri Lanka’s civil war fall in love. But their time out of war in the safety of a monastery threatens to be short, with detachments of both armies closing in.

An office worker’s encounters with a caterpillar unlock childhood memories, looping through time, blending the mundane and the magical.

The teenage thieves known as the Mavericks plan to work with new kid Ezra Pawk when they finally decide it's time to pull off a heist that's worth a lot more than money.

35mm of collaged film material reading like a diary without linear thought or narrative. A hodgepodge of photographic images spliced and taped with ecstatic handmade explosions of colour and texture. A fragmentary experience that revels in the material and provides an opaque and impenetrable portrait of the maker.

The angel of history will rise, awaken the dead, and rebuild what has been destroyed; for ‘We have on this earth what makes life worth living’.

Lifelong Syrian friends Qusay and Nabil spend a day in their Berlin apartment, drifting through dreams, archival footage and present-day events to confront the shifting faces of political violence. Together, they hold on to love and care as the most radical acts of resistance.

“Aural Architecture” considers aural experiences originating in the mind communicated through sign language and voice.

Through the lens of a child experiencing their first death of a pet, this video work muses on the ways that humankind distances itself from the truth of our animality, and how the digital realm we have fortified in the past 20 years pretends to be separate from our physical plane.

Body is a stopmotion animation that uses dreamlike imagery to reassert ownership and agency over the chronically ill bodymind.

While embarking on a journey to buy water ice in West Philly, two women reach a tipping point in their secret relationship as they celebrate their unbeknown final day together.