Swordswoman Li Feifei

Grand Hotel A visual journey inside the majestic building of Locarno's Gran Hotel, long-closed. The ghosts of those who resided in it during the past decades still live inside.

Little Things in Life Two vignettes on drunkards and their enablers.

Who would believe us? In 2020, five kids were victims of police gunfire. One of them, Blas Correas, was killed. In spite of the attempts to cover it up, institutional violence and police brutality came to light.

Kwagh Hir Four million Tiv people form the major culture of the Benue state of southern Nigeria. They are popularly known as the greatest democrats in Africa as their society is based on fraternal cooperation between age mates rather than on authoritative chieftaincy. Men of an age work together on communal farming and house building and celebrate their achievements with feasts famed for the excellence of their music and dance. Their women create amongst the greatest dances in Nigeria within their extended family compounds. Each year, during the dry season, when there is little farm work, the leaders of the dance teams compose songs to record recent experiences and new features in their lives which they express in the rhythms and gestures of their dance.

Message by Music: Senega... Senegal is a country in transition, with increasing education and economic growth and a burgeoning art scene. It is customary that its culture, stories, and history have been kept alive and transmitted by their traditional singers called griots. Message by Music introduces us to Awadi, a renowned rapper with Pan-Africanist sensibilities and juxtaposes his political message with the more old-school griots. Transitions in society are reflected in the arts but also the arts can be the catalysts to move society.

The Hen A young and silly hen falls in love with a handsome rooster. After a series of dramatic adventures, she unexpectedly becomes a mother to many children.

Urgent message from the ... A dystopian short film about the gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.

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It Ends With A Knife A lonely man is convinced to protect his solitary life.

I dreamed that Tom was b... Martín goes jogging, but an unknown woman trips him up. The unknown woman’s husband doesn’t understand his wife’s behavior. Marín has a date but gets hurt. The woman who tripped him has a dream in which her poodle is butchered. No one understands what goes on in the mind of the other.