國際競賽

On Barcelona’s edge, Vallbona lies enclosed by river, railway and highway. Antonio, son of Catalan workers, has tended flowers here for nearly ninety years alongside neighbours from many places. Through music, forbidden swims and budding romances, a quiet resistance emerges against urban change and social division.

Three MiniDV tapes filmed in 2001 resurface years later. A search for a former prison mate turns into a road trip across Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. Reflecting on memory, loss and time, the film evokes lives and places that may never be found again.

Kamal Aljafari: ‘An homage to Gaza and its people, to all that was erased and returned to me in this urgent moment of Palestinian existence — or non-existence. It is a film about “the catastrophe”, and the poetry that resists. This is my first film, which I have never made.

A decade ago, on the Morocco–Spain border, the filmmaker and his group attempted the ‘boza’ crossing to Europe. After repeated failures, they survive through solidarity, songs and a camera, as the self-named ‘Artist’ keeps hope alive.

David Bingong: ‘We made The Travelers to capture our lives as sub-Saharan immigrants in Morocco from an everyday perspective. We wanted to show our reality as it is, without filters, using a handful of songs and videos we created that speak of our community, conflicts and dreams.

Emerging from the rubber boom’s shadows, the film recovers the stories of Omarino and Aredomi, two Indigenous boys enslaved by La Casa Arana and taken to Europe. Interweaving personal inquiry with early-twentieth-century Amazonian archives, it traces a sensory dialogue between memory, power and reparative imagination.

Drawing on the myth of Mount Qaf, an imaginary mountain range at the world’s edge, the film follows Maryam, exiled from Iran at twenty, reconnecting with her family from afar through surveillance images. When Iran’s internet is cut off, memory and distance blur into a meditation on technology and belonging.