I ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED ON A FLOWER
Tirana’s second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state of limbo, silent and timeless. Built with over a million point clouds after scanning the entire stadium, this posthumanist film poem shows the perennial wildflowers that have sprouted in the abandoned fields of the stadium.
Albania 2024 / 17:35 / Director: Eneos Carka, Stivi Imami / Producer: Eneos Carka, Stivi
SHOKOUK: A COSMICOMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
This transhistorical hybrid documentary traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations, the film combines historical facts and archival fabulations and questions our common perceptions of time and space.
Uzbekistan, Canada 2023 / 17:03 / Director: Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari / Producer: Felix Kalmenson, Foziljon Yunusov,
Rouzbeh Akhbari
VENUS IN RETROGRADE
This video footage shot by two sisters portrays their escape from the real world through their phone while their mother escapes the same world with the help of alcohol. Their nice memories are interwoven with the struggles of the family.
Slovakia 2024 / 15:20 / Director: Štefánia Lovasová / Producer: Michaela Kaliská
BUTTERFLY
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.
Croatia, Denmark 2024 / 8:07 / Director: Suncana Brkulj / Producer: Drasko Ivezic, Lana Tankosa Nikolic
THE MEANINGLESS DAYDREAMS OF AUGIE & CELESTE
When Celeste dares her very-best-friend Augie to kiss a scarecrow, the pair embark on a high-stakes, and somewhat unhinged, game of imagination which soon takes an unforeseen turn, threatening to jeopardise their friendship forever.
Australia 2024 / 6:56 / Director: Pernell Marsden / Producer: Sophie Booth
MEMORIES OF AN UNBORN SUN
Every year, thousands of Chinese emigrants go to work on building sites in Algeria, living on isolated bases in the desert. Some die there, without ever being repatriated. Based on eyewitness accounts, hearsay and fake news, this film is a parable with dystopian overtones exploring the relentless (neo)colonial exploitation of the Algerian territory.
Algeria, France, Netherlands 2024 / 22:00 / Director: Marcel Mrejen / Producer: Philippe Martin, Amina Salem Castaing, M’Hand Abadou Djezairi, Marcel Mrejen