program description
Canada/Cuba, 2018, 40m
Through moments of work, rest, and celebration, the film produces a deceptively profound portrait of a family, a neighbourhood, and a nation. (Jesse Cummings)
Haiti / France, 2017, 11m
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution.
UAE, Thailand, 2023, 22m
This essayistic exploration of Myanmar’s history is presented in three chapters and rooted in three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, the Yangon Circle Railway, and the Drug Elimination Museum.
Mexico, 2013, 1h 7m
The Naked Room offers a vision of a world without leaving a single space: the room where doctors visits take place in a children´s hospital in Mexico City.
UK/France, 2020, 2h 12m
Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centres of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life.
Netherlands, 2018, 1h 40m
An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname.
USA, 2021, 33m
Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his “New World”, where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries.
Cuba, 2021, 12m
The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother.
Switzerland / Germany, 2003, 26m
Visit Iraq is a short about the abandoned Iraqi Airways office in Geneva.
Indonesia / Germany, 2024, 32m
Fragments of images and words taken from my personal diaries from 2017-2024, mostly in my mother tongue.
Thailand, 2017, 16m
Two sound recordists are working on the final mix of a short film.
Mexico, 2012, 1h 1m
Three Voices recounts the intimate love stories of three women of different generations: a teenager, a middle-aged divorcée, and a 90 year-old great grandmother.
Afghanistan, 1996, 20m
This short essay film was assembled by director Qader Tahiri from unedited newsreel footage shot by eight Afghan Films cameramen between 1993 and 1995.
Egypt, 2025, 9m
This visual material was shot with no intention to make a film whatsoever – just simple takes with a non-professional actor.
Mexico, 2013, 1h 35m
The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress.
Mexico/El Salvador, 2011, 1h 45m
On the surface El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) is the story of Cinquera, a village literally wiped off the official map during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
Mexico, 2018, 52m
Miguel traces his way trying to survive. His reality becomes increasingly labyrinthine until he must eventually face up to his own being.
Mexico, 2017, 1h 24m
Omar & Gloria dance Danzon. Gloria who is 80 years old is a woman full of light. For over 15 years Omar has been her accomplice and dancing partner.