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Chrysotile

One of the most dangerous yet simultaneously highest-in-demand product for a number of uses and years – asbestos is all set for a close-up in this ingenious film breaking down the boundaries between investigative documentary, experimental essay, and video art. Filming every aspect of this covertly lethal mineral, from its molecular structure, and its industrial uses to its removal attempts, with a distinctively artistic and highly inspired cinematic language, the film constructs a mysterious cinematic landscape as unfamiliar as it is entrancing. Sarah del Pino, a multi-faceted and restless visual artist, delivers a film that defies every label but opens itself up to a wide range of interesting fields, steering thoughts and senses to unpredictable, prolific paths.

Chrysotile

NR 2024
History of the Present

An experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict, History of the Present has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. This intersectional, intergenerational feminist work layers sociological, cultural, and political themes from the recent history of Northern Ireland, foregrounding working-class women’s voices to ask: who has the right to speak, and in what way?

History of the Present

NR 2024
Under a New Light

Blue Fox is a modern hero capable of engaging with a large audience. But above all he is the hero of the little ones who see in this extraordinary figure the solution to the small problems of life. On the occasion of the release of the new chapter of his saga, three children learn, each in their own way, to rediscover the wonder of things under a new light. It doesn't matter if this will happen thanks to a special meeting, thanks to listening to an engaging soundtrack or indirectly. This short film is evocative. It tells the emotion that only cinema can give us and that makes us feel a little less small every day.

Under a New Light

10.0 2024
Prague's Girl

Francesco and Eloisa, through old photographs, reconstruct the story of Maša and Gianlorenzo, their grandparents. She, an exile from the Prague countryside, and he, a wealthy Roman intellectual working at the Italian Embassy in Prague. The two fell in love shortly before the Russians occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Thanks to Gianlorenzo's connections, Maša became the first Czech woman to obtain permission from the Communist Party to marry a foreigner and thus obtain Italian citizenship. The situation continued to worsen, and the rules became suffocating. They decided to leave Maša's family and move to Italy with their three children. There, Maša entered the world of the Roman upper middle class, conservative and often judgmental. Her fourth child was born. Something inside her broke. All her choices, from that moment on, were guided by an uncontrollable need for freedom. A freedom that a totalitarian government would strip from you and never give back.

Prague's Girl

6.0 2024
Independence

The Afro-German actor Helen Wendt takes the audience on a journey along her family history between the GDR, Mozambique and West Berlin, while exploring how her identity and personal independence is embedded in the social context of Germany. In a hybrid approach, the film simultaneously follows members of independence movements in Mozambique, South Sudan, Great Britain, Catalonia and Bavaria, asking what it means for people to fight for their freedom. What does independence truly mean and how do colonialism and racism, the causes of many independence movements, define the world to this day?

Independence

NR 2024
Home Is Where The Starfruit Tastes Sour

In Huy Nguyen’s family, there are many things that are left unsaid. Why is the story of his parents’ migration hardly mentioned, even though it has had a profound impact on different generations? Why is the relationship between parents and children so complicated? Is there a common story? And where does each person’s individual identity take shape? To find the answer, Huy sought out his grandparents in Vietnam. There, he recorded their daily activities, meals, and conversations. By building a close relationship with his grandparents, he also tried to understand and be closer to his parents.

Home Is Where The Starfruit Tastes Sour

NR 2024