Competitive sections
OPERA
IGOR ZELIĆ – 2025 / CROACIA
OPERA
IGOR ZELIĆ – 2025 / CROACIA
Opera is an experimental film that explores perception through a filmic collage constructed with the help of a single light source. Through layered manipulation of that single source, the frame gains the rhythm of multiple sources and a play of light that transforms space and perception. This is a film about how an image can conceal reality – and what happens when it can no longer do so.
MERRIMUNDI
NILES ATALLAH – 2025 / CHILE
MERRIMUNDI
NILES ATALLAH – 2025 / CHILE
A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.
TAMASHI / SPIRIT
ASHIMA SHIRAISHI, JESS X. SNOW – 2025 / UNITED STATES-FRANCE
TAMASHI / SPIRIT
ASHIMA SHIRAISHI, JESS X. SNOW – 2025 / UNITED STATES-FRANCE
Ashima Shiraishi, a rock climber, invites her father, former butoh dancer Poppo Shiraishi to reconcile their past fraught relationship of mentor and mentee. Through an offering of a ceremony of dance and climbing, along with Ashima’s poetry, past traumas are transformed through the body poetic, calling for a cathartic rainstorm to nourish the land.
O RIO DE JANEIRO CONTINUA LINDO / RIO DE JANEIRO REMAINS BEAUTIFUL
FELIPE CASANOVA – 2025 / BELGIUM-BRAZIL-SWITZERLAND
O RIO DE JANEIRO CONTINUA LINDO / RIO DE JANEIRO REMAINS BEAUTIFUL
FELIPE CASANOVA – 2025 / BELGIUM-BRAZIL-SWITZERLAND
Within the revelry of Rio’s Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd? Suspended in time, the celebration becomes a space of memory and political resistance.