State Of Mind

Talamanca There is a sound echoing across the forest of Talamanca. It triggers the extraordinary in the ordinary universe of Justo, a BriBri farmer, father and adventurer. It is the blow of the here and now, the quintessence of what is alive that expands a story made by imaginative materialities enshrined amidst Earth's liveliness and indigenous worldly epic. A film on the BriBri present in Talamanca, on its restless awakening and its companion wonders.

Son of the Streets 13-year-old Khodor is a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education, health-care and movement outside of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon. Through the process, many of the family's old secrets are revealed.

Betta It’s winter in some city. A young lonely woman walks the night with an obsession: never ceasing to chew gum. This affects her moves and relationships. When she finally accepts to give up on the world she knows, there will be no turning back.

Riders Not Heroes Short documentary essay that investigates the precarious conditions of food delivery riders in Milan. The film makes a strong case for riders as essential workers, lying at the intersection of platform capitalism, gig labor, the refugee crises and COVID-19.

Mara dei Cormorani The sea is the thin border between what we are and what we are forced to be.

Beasts The story of Lucas, a 13 year-old kid who swears vengeance to the man that abuses his mother in exchange for a miserable life.

Letters Live from the Ar... Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.

Anne James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.

Sortes Beneath the harvest sun and the cicada song, Mónica Martins Nunes builds a touching portrait of Serra de Serpa, an arid region in the south of Portugal affected by rural exodus. The poems sung by the shepherds and market traders resonate like the last gesture of a human landscape which resists sinking into oblivion.

Little Palestine: Diary ... During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. The film follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.