Noise: Unwanted Sound
0.2 seconds after a sound reaches the cochlea, the brain assigns distance, direction and speed. With constant tinnitus, the director compares inner sounds with Somchai, a construction worker and...
Until the Orchid Blooms
Neang, an Indigenous woman in northeastern Cambodia, watches her village disappear beneath a hydroelectric dam. As industrial and state forces pressure families to leave ancestral lands, she...
What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
The webcam witnesses it all. Living in Berlin, the director records ten years of drifting online conversations with parents in Isfahan and a cousin in Vienna. Much remains unsaid. Text fragments and...
Where the Sea Breeze Blows
Each year, the filmmaker’s family takes a ferry from Kaohsiung to Penghu to visit her grandfather. When he chooses to end his life, that routine ends. Her mother keeps a diary while the filmmaker...
Writing Hawa
Filmed over five years, this film follows three generations of Hazara women in Afghanistan. Forced into marriage as a child, Hawa learns to read at 52 and starts a textile business, while her...
A Simple Soldier
Filmed over three and a half years on Ukraine’s frontline, the film follows a young filmmaker who trades his camera for a rifle and joins the Territorial Defence Forces. As war reshapes his life, he...
Afterlives
A desktop documentary engaging the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda, examining how images of violence circulate, mutate and persist. Moving between online investigations and real...
Flophouse America
Amid the U.S. housing crisis, twelve-year-old Mikal lives with his parents and their cat in a dilapidated flophouse room. Marked by precarity and alcohol abuse yet sustained by love, his coming of...
Good Valley Stories
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....