FINDING THE LANDSCAPE
“Now I am giving a landscape a name, a place, a location.” The documentary Finding the Landscape explores the renewed encounter between photographer Chrystel Lebas and the area surrounding Wittenberg, in the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. Through long-exposure and panoramic film photography, Lebas documents and reveals transformations in the natural environment shaped by ecological and […]
FELICIDAD
A gardener works in a large resort on the island of La Palma. Every day he tends to swimming pools, hedges, flowerbeds, and ornamental plants, domesticated copies of the wild nature that surrounds him. Yet within himself he repeats, like a prayer: “This is my garden, here I will build my garden.” His true happiness […]
FANFARE 2025
Fanfare 2025 revisits Bert Haanstra’s classic (1958), contrasting the idealized postwar image with today’s reality marked by ecological crisis and ideological polarization.
EL GÜERO
A foreign man, working for a U.S. company, arrives in a coastal town to supervise the construction of the first touristic hotel in the area. He starts feeling uncomfortable as the townspeople express their frustration over the invasion of their beaches, until one night the confrontation reaches a breaking point.
DAWN CHORUS
Dawn Chorus is a meditative and thought-provoking short documentary following interspecies musician and philosopher David Rothenberg as he ventures into the natural world with an unusual mission: to make music with birds. Blending art and science, the film explores the relationships between observer and participant, musician and animal, human and nature. Set in the liminal […]
BELA KOPRENA (White Veil)
Nestled by the banks of the Soča River, the village of Anhovo carries a legacy buried beneath layers of history and dust. More than 100 years ago, an asbestos cement factory was built. Through shifting wars, regimes, and borders from fascism, socialism, and capitalism. From Italy, Yugoslavia, to Slovenia, the factory endured. It gave people […]
ARTEFACTS OF ACCUMULATION
Artefacts of Accumulation voyages into the depths of the transformation process of discarded matter. The short documentary gazes at the operations that domestic and industrial waste undertake in the process of being recycled and deposited. Immersing in the technologies that define the procedures of dealing with refuse, the film reveals the architectures that orbit the […]
ÅRT
In the upper reaches of the Vöckla, we follow two scientists as they reintroduce the endangered stone crayfish. What first appears to be a concrete conservation project opens up a much wider space of reflection in ÅRT: a view of the hidden life beneath the water’s surface and the fragile balance of ecosystems that often […]
ANAK MACAN (My Plastic Mother)
Eki, living by the landfill, searches for a memento to honor his late mother. Battling the relentless rain, landslides, and looming threats from scavengers and machinery, he fears her memory could be lost beneath the waste forever.
1.5 AND BEYOND (Beyond 1.5)
2033. Barcelona. Heatwave in December. Nana lives with her mother and is unemployed. Her luck finally seems to change when a powerful multinational takes an interest in her. However, she will soon discover that getting the job means sacrificing more than she ever imagined.