Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.
In a tense waiting room, a group of young people receives a mysterious memory card tied to a forbidden project. When a goverment officer bursts in, old connections resurface and everyone is forced to choose between obedience and rebellion.
Shirin and her two children live in a neighborhood in Isfahan during the years of the Sacred Defense. Her husband, Mansour, who has gone to the front, is scheduled to come to Isfahan for a day and return. Shirin is trying to prepare the house for his arrival.
Members of the trans community gather to memorialise those who have passed away in the preceding year, and talk about issues of discrimination, violence and suicide faced by the community.
When the shy Lola experiences a wild club night with her extroverted friend, she gets caught in a whirlwind of drugs, sex and power games – until a shocking event radically shakes her perception and reality.
The result of a correspondence between the artists, 8mm film shot in North Karelia, and archival material. The average life expectancy of a girl born in Finland is 84.2 years—the work focuses on the statistical midpoint of the protagonist’s life, reflecting through the concept of an oceanic feeling on themes of death, fear of death, embodiment, and intergenerationality.
The dialogue heard in the background is based on a correspondence that has taken place since 2021 between visual artist Miia Autio and Beninese medium and traditional healer Koffi Robert Djossou. Through this exchange, the artist seeks to explore a worldview unfamiliar to her – that of Vodun, the world’s largest nature-based religion. The work is a dive into Vodoun’s invisible realm and into questions concerning the relationship between belief, images, and reality. The pursuit of the invisible world initiated a personal process for the artist, in which various messages, dreams, and whispers of wind began, almost of their own accord, to carry the story forward.
Documentary that chronicles the journalistic investigation initiated 45 years after the massacre of February 22, 1977, when four men and two women were executed by firing squad by the Army against a wall of the Racing Club de Avellaneda stadium during Argentina's last military dictatorship.
Unemployed and restless, Semanur stumbles on a strange online hustle. But when her mother’s feet spark unexpected demand, she exploits her without consent—crossing into unsettling moral territory in a darkly ironic tale of self-commodification.