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Left Behind

In China, over 69 million children have been left behind by their parents in their home villages while they migrate to big cities to survive. Qui Che (14) was left by his mother with his grandparents. He was 4 years old when his father tragically took his own life due to their financial situation. He grew up lonely with unbearable burdens to help his grandparents with farm work. He vents his difficulties by writing diaries that provide a glimpse into his inner world. His story reveals a personal journey filled with emotional, familial, and societal challenges, especially the absence of his mother, who returns home once in three years. The film is a microcosm of the universal migration tendencies around the world.

Left Behind

NR 2025
Available Light

The film explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Comprising interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters in that city and London, a productive dialectic opens between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities. Combining trademark immersive sound design with impressionistic images and abstractions, Quaintance crafts an austere, oneiric and subtly affecting portrait of residential precarity.

Available Light

NR 2025
Mr Biscuit

This story revolves around Mark, who’s on a journey of grief after the death of his dad. While throwing out some of his dad’s old stuff, he is approached by a disheveled taxidermy dog called Mr Biscuit. Mr Biscuit ends up being the friend Mark needed to fill the hole his father left. - As their friendship blossoms, Mark comes to terms with his loss. One morning, when Mr Biscuit decides his work is done, he leaves to help others. Mark is left behind to handle the speech at his father's funeral with the memory of Mr Biscuit still playing on his mind.

Mr Biscuit

NR 2025
Arg(h)itzen: Speaking Clearly of Torture, Enlightening Torture

The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.

Arg(h)itzen: Speaking Clearly of Torture, Enlightening Torture

NR 2025