NZZ Format - Oldtimer in Kuba

Luv U Cuz Two cousins bond over the course of a night on the town, until their relationship is tested in more ways than one.

Romeo und Julia - DOR While a roaring ball stirs up spirits inside, a boy and a girl meet on the sidelines – and fall in love at first sight. But because they belong to warring families, Romeo and Juliet's love may be immortal, but it is above all forbidden. The chamber opera by the German-Baltic composer Boris Blacher, written in 1943, condenses Shakespeare’s famous tragedy to its essence: the fate of Romeo and Juliet. Scenic miniatures conjure a foggy world hostile to love. Characters occasionally materialise like ghostly apparitions, while a Brechtian chansonnier comments with humour and with harshness on the failure of the greatest love story of all.

Unrendered Road Today we encounter the world through the prism of seemingly neutral, digital apps owned by tech giants. Unrendered Road traces the road between two ancient cities: Jerusalem and Jericho. A journey that Google Maps will not show you. By assembling conflicting perceptual readings, the reliability of existing knowledge systems is questioned.

Eletia

Underground Cemetery When Thong-Yu discovers his house is about to collapse, he is confronted by the sins of his past. His dead brother then aids him in his search for absolution. A sarcastic reflection on karma, guilt and Thailand’s political climate.

UNEARTH – In Between St... UNEARTH presents research into processes connected to resource extraction and zooms in on material transformations and mining machines. It weaves together fragments from conversations that were recorded in the Russian Ural Mountain region, dealing with the emergence of new minerals, an obsession with stones and the life cycle of machines.

World It’s been two years since Claudette moved to a remote village in Armenia to take care of her bedridden mother. At this point, both facing and avoiding the inevitable loss has become her daily, messy routine. In World, Haroutounian skilfully takes us through the peculiarities and universality of grief.

Frame and Matter As the movie exits the black box, it realizes that the experience in the theater was material. I'm going to make a movie and reenact that property. He sits in front of the screen and recalls the sense of wiping out his body. But this attempt continues to run up against strange losses. The journey of losing something as it embodies it. The ghosts of the screen outside the theater sink slowly into the light.

Tripsitter A personal journey through various consciousness-expanding moments experienced by artist Frederique Pisuisse. The confessional diary gives an insight into traumatic drug trips, panic attacks and out-of-body experiences. The viewer is navigated by a poetry reading, whilst roaming through a ghost space personifying the dark corners of the human mind.

Dreamland Samir is a 12 year-old boy who simply wants to play soccer with his friends. But this is Iraq, and there's a war in his way. Though his love for the game is strong, the reality of combat is daunting. Will Samir overcome bomb blasts, gunfire, and the horror of his 'normal' life? Or will his determination to play... to simply be a kid, prevail?