TRISTESSE
These are video letters I exchanged with myself. Happy memories, sad memories. They become the past the moment they’re put into words. Poetry is the beauty of memories. This film is dedicated to Kurumi, a cat fighting illness, and to Hana, who is in the midst of a difficult situation.
Japan 2026 / 11:14 / Director: Yuri Muraoka / Producer: Nonoho Suzuki
LES ÂMES DU FOUTA (SOULS OF FOUTA)
Penda and Moustapha have lost their 17-year-old son due to an overdose. Despite their grief, Moustapha decides that their son will not be buried in the family cemetery because his soul is impure. Against all odds, Penda must now find a solution on her own so that her son can rest in peace beside her.
France, Senegal 2026 / 18:00 / Director: Alpha Diallo / Producer: Oualid Baha, Souleymane Kebe
LEAKS IN THE LINES
Created from laser-etched 16 mm leader and garden footage shot in Paris, the film reimagines the logic of a 17th century garden design manual into a shifting visual system. The film traces how human systems imprint themselves onto natural environments, and how those environments quietly resist.
Canada, United States 2026 / 4:32 / Director: Adebukola Bodunrin
PINK SCHLEMMER
From Oskar Schlemmer’s essay ‘Man and Art Figure’, through a 16 mm film of his choreographies, to that film’s decay into pink, ‘Pink Schlemmer’ layers choreography upon choreography.
Canada 2025 / 12:30 / Director: Oliver Husain
TAXI MOTO
Prevented from making his film, a director reinvents its images elsewhere, with another actor. As they search for each other, cinema becomes an act of love and intimate poetic resistance.
Switzerland, France, Rwanda 2026 / 20:00 / Director: Gaël Kamilindi Producer: François-Xavier Destors, José Michel Buhler
INVISIBLE HARVESTS
A tactile, stop-motion poem built from decayed 16 mm film, dried kombucha SCOBYs, and bubbling ferments. Treating animation as a process of transformative decay, the film traces inherited rituals and the residue of care. It attends to what persists as memory and language fade.
Canada 2026 / 6:12 / Director/Producer: Stephanie Dudley
DREAMS FOR A BETTER PAST
A photograph, a quiet legacy of power, and ideological battles that echo through generations. When searching through fragments of the past, there are things we choose not to see. How do we inherit what we cannot grasp, forcing us to repeat the same gestures over and over again?
Netherlands, Spain 2025 / 20:41 / Director: Albert Kuhn / Producer: Naomi Pacifique, Diana Toucedo, Albert Kuhn