The Defiant Giant

Goldfish Ichi Go reveals her ambivalent attitude towards tradition in the modern world, as she breaks out through a traditional Japanese garment inside an underground passageway in dance.

Off the Trail Gary Snyder’s contemplation on the Dao De Jing and nature is reconfigured into a rolling Californian landscape of fog-shrouded hills, dense woodland valleys, and empty military barracks.

Manoel Bernardino: o Len... The film tells the trajectory of a peasant, spiritist, socialist and vegetarian leader during the first half of the 20th century.

Long Rong Song Projected on a framework of particles that is sometimes ordered and sometimes in flux, Ottar Ormstad‘s constructed language poetry is exposed and read by the author while performing to Mashtalirs pulsating music. This work is a collaboration between composer Mashtalir, poet Ormstad and artist Vojjov. A constructed language mixed with pulsating music in an atmospheric scape gives a unique experience!

Ghost Nets The discovery that three surfers make whilst camping on a deserted beach shows them that everything washes ashore eventually.

Mountain City One cannot but dream of escape as the cable car descends into the mounting urban landscape of Chongqing.

Wherever You Are Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become.

Paint Me a Painting Three generations try to communicate. The grandmother and the mother find it difficult to get over the weight of the past. Their hope of reconnection lies with the granddaughter.

Terras Brasileiras In the south of Mato Grosso do Sul, almost on the border with Paraguay, indigenous and rural producers are disputing land ownership. In a tense atmosphere, there are clashes, evictions, attacks and even deaths. The conflict comes from centuries, caused by errors of the Brazilian State itself. Now, both sides demand urgent solution. The dispute has already turned into a tragedy of great proportions.

Emily Melting Gérard Rudolf: “A poem as much about a lost country (South Africa) as it is about people losing each other in the half remembered haze of a boyhood memory.”