PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory, and also the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
Canada 2024 / 15:20 / Director/Producer: Alison McAlpine
TEETH
In popular culture, the escalator has been depicted as a path to the afterlife. This film portrays the metro station’s escalators as an intermediate space, and directs our attention to the other side of the conveyor to the engine room, where the workers who maintain the machinery are having lunch.
Finland 2024 / 9:45 / Director/Producer: Ville Koskinen
400 CASSETTES
After a lesson about cosmic archaeology and a water fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present. Under a sky full of stars, a song from the past will remind them that nothing really lasts forever.
Greece 2024 / 14:08 / Director: Thelyia Petraki / Producer: Christopher Zitterbart, Kostas Tagalakis, Panos Papadopoulos
TWO SIDES OF THE TORTOISE
An explorer from the past (or present) arrives in the Galapagos Islands for the first time to have a tactile encounter with rocks and tortoises. In the darkness of the volcanic tunnels, the animals transform. The giant tortoises hold the mystery of the universe in the scars on their backs, and to their misfortune they are also food for hungry sailors who aimlessly scavenge the Pacific Ocean.
Ecuador 2024 / 11:40 / Director/Producer: Oscar X. Illingworth
SAUNA DAY
This film invites you into the world of southern Estonian men who go to the dark, intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day’s work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.
Estonia 2024 / 13:00 / Director: Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash
Producer: Evelin Penttilä, Johanna Maria Paulson
RAZEH-DEL
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran’s first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Iran, United Kingdom, Italy 2024 / 27:47 / Director: Maryam Tafakory / Producer: Leonardo Bigazzi