Discoveries from Malta World Cinema

Il- Kaċċatur (The Hunter) is a glimpse into the practices of contemporary Maltese wild bird hunters. Posing questions about legality, morality, climate change and the need for cultural change in response to it.

The camera calmly explores the holes and fissures of a cliff face, the traces of the ocean. The austere landscape seems to have fallen out of time. Only a few decades ago, fishermen threw their trap baskets into the water from here. Today, the sea around Malta has long been fished dry. Punta, a moustachioed islander, wants to have one more go.

Somewhere is a short animation that follows Vincent - a researcher at the Halo space Research centre - who makes a detour to a now hostile Planet Earth to retrieve an item.

An interview with Leon Bonnici, a 26-year-old Maltese trans man. He talks about his trans journey, family, his t4t relationship, medical transitioning, work and his love for the sea.