The Ardent Other France, 2023, 16 min Language: french Subtitles: english, lithuanian Director(s): Alice Brygo Cast Clara Dessertine A stunned crowd watches a fire. The threat has no name, the inferno is everywhere.
Baldilocks Belgium, 2024, 25 min Language: Dutch Subtitles: lithuanian, english Director(s). I may lack gratitude, but I have to admit that I have no desire to live for the doctors who did everything to save me. I was healed, but at the same time physically and mentally traumatised. Through the lens of my father's camera, I am looking at a period of my life from which I have not a single memory. Two decades after I survived childhood cancer, I am looking for traces of the disease among the scars and desires.
Nafura (Nafura) France, 2023, 29 min Language: Arabic Subtitles: english, lithuanian Subtitles: english, lithuanian Director(s): Paul Heintz Cast: Ali Alsheri, Diya Al Khaled, Bereer Abdulsamad, Nour Al Saad, Zahya Al Fahed One evening, bored with their work, three friends begin to share their thoughts about the symbolism behind the Jeddah Fountain in Saudi Arabia. Built by the King in the 1980s, it is considered the tallest fountain in the world. The friends' thoughts on this monument turn to reflections on the government, prohibitions and the recent, highly accelerated gentrification of their city.
8 (8) France, 2023, 22 min Language: French Subtitles: English, Lithuanian Director(s): Anaïs-Tohé Commaret Cast. Money, fame, success - all this may be tempting, but he rather doesn't care. Many tender little destinies intersect like the tendencies of the number 8. They are like saliva or like lasers - impossible to catch, but shining, magical, like a line of sight sprinting towards infinity. Perhaps then we should move on to fiction, sharpen the scenario with a hyper-realistic dreaming technique learned on the internet, on TikTok (Shifting), in order to bring back a little hope. As if it were possible, like eating light.
I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Ukraine, 2023, 17 min Language: Ukrainian, English Subtitles: lithuanian, english Director(s): Daryna Mamaisur "I don't have the words" is an often heard phrase, when the realities of war are so devastating that language seems unable to describe them. As Daryna Mamaisur studies in Brussels, her country is being invaded on a massive scale by Russia. In spring, when the chestnut trees in Brussels and in Kiev bloom at the same time, she sets out to make a film that captures that spring that smells somewhere in the distance. Exchanging visual letters with a friend from Kiev, Daryna is confronted with the question: how does one make a film about war that speaks of a fresh and still expanding wound?
