BITTER HARVEST ( الحصاد المُ ر )
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SUKKAILLUTIT UQARUK – SAY IT SLOWLY
My journey to learning Inuktitut at times has felt disorienting and anxiety producing and also fulfilling and soul nourishing. How can we adequately be protectors of the land if we do not speak its language? If we do not understand its seasonal shifts, its life cycles, its volatile nature? Our generation is doing the best […]
LAST TROPICS
An aquatic malady threatens a forgotten coastal village. Confronted with this rising marine crisis, three young fishermen resort to illegal dynamite fishing.
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 […]
FANFARE 2025
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ANAK MACAN (My Plastic Mother)
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SURURU BRANCO (White Sururu)
Sururu is a shellfish and culinary delicacy from Maceió, a tourist paradise in Northeastern Brazil. But in the last few years it started to disappear, losing ground to a strange new kind of mussel local fisherman began calling ‘white sururu’. This exotic species first appeared in 2023 at the same time a rock-salt mine collapsed […]
FLORESTA DO FIM DO MUNDO
Blending speculative fiction with the cosmogeny of the Amazonian Baniwa people, the film tells the story of Suely, an Indigenous woman who divides her days between a small apartment in a large Brazilian city and dreams in which she communicates with a forest. Between romantic dances in a suburban bar, the heavy sounds of machines […]
DIÁRIO DE LÁ (Diary From There)
In Melgaço, a transmission tower may be built, or it may not. On the horizon, the wind farms of Alto Minho. A vast landscape where everything and nothing changes, according to the eyes and the memories of its inhabitants. Recording these stories in a film diary woven from ephemeral encounters, three Brazilians follow literal and […]
JARDIM ANCESTRAL (Ancestral Garden)
Among roots, trunks, and branches, a father and son journey in search of a tree that speaks of time and memory. Ancestral Garden is a poetic short film about ancestry, resistance, and reconnection. Set in Recife — home to the largest concentration of Baobab trees outside Africa — the story intertwines different generations of the […]