This audiovisual essay dives into the complexity of the border space from three European enclaves located in African territory: Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands. The film plunges into the gap that unites and separates Africa and Europe, in search of the ruins and ghosts from the wreckage of the utopias that have grown on both sides: Europe as a promised land for the dispossessed South and Africa as a paradise for the exotic-hungry North.
Afloat follows Owen, a young man burdened by shame, fear, and trauma, who returns home and takes an experimental pill meant to erase emotional pain. What he hopes will heal him only makes things worse.
After 12 years of documentary courses being absent as a form of Integrated Practicum in the Film Department at IKJ, Bikeska, Paul, Arrivo, and Raihanul chose to break the tradition. Amidst the dominance of fiction films, which are considered more prestigious, they chose documentaries due to budget constraints and a desire to respond to the world in a more honest and intimate way. Their poetic documentary film captures two layers of reality: a man who draws architectural spaces, and the laborers who build them. However, the process led to a creative crisis and the images were too structured as the treatment felt like fiction filmmaking. The question arose: were they recording reality or constructing it? The camera turned around, highlighting the team’s process and confusion. Ultimately, the film not only captures space and labor, but also reflects that documentaries, like buildings, are the result of construction and choice.
Lucas has had feelings for his co-worker ever since he started his new job, but doesn’t know how to make a move - until an unexpected friend speaks up to give him advice… whether it’s actually helpful is another question.
Antonello is a forty-year-old man from Irpinia who is deeply attached to his homeland despite the myriad daily problems he faces. Boredom, depression, the incivility around him and, above all, love convince him to pack his bags and leave in search of something new, a place where "people still look at the sky."
In a boxing gym on the northern outskirts of London, dominated by boys, an eleven-year-old girl struggles to be seen. Her act of defiance becomes a touching portrait of pain, courage, and resilience.
Years after a brutal family tragedy, two estranged brothers reunite and return to their desolate childhood home. A house heavy with remorse, guilt, and grief, reflecting everything that went wrong with them.
Mina is in Cannes to perform three nights during the Festival. She hangs out in cozy clubs and hotel rooms, moving from the arms of lovers to those of friends. There is Mina the performer, but also Mina the Italian singer of the 1970s, whom Mina summons to the stage every night.
The now deceased Stupid Magician travels through Heaven and Hell. After making a deal with the Devil, the Magician returns to the world of the living only to encounter an unexpected adversary.
In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an imagined island, these five mothers are locked away in an open-air prison. They are under surveillance and forced into hard labor.
Amid study sessions, shared memories, and late-night laughs, a college student begins to feel like he’s losing touch with the girl he thought he knew; and maybe with himself.