program description
Singapore, 2024, 15m
“What’s softest…” is a glimpse of queer parenthood in Singapore, where such families are illegitimate under the eyes of the law. Like Kin, the hybrid documentary film combines interview material with a constructed communal space for play and imagination.
Nigeria, 2023, 21m
In a riveting tale of love and self-discovery, a restless young woman finds herself embroiled in a passionate conflict with her partner of 14 years.
France, 1974, 17m
Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab.
Palestine / Denmark, 2012, 9m
Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short film offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.
Thailand, 2018, 29m
Through a fictionalized account of the bodiless voices hovering over commercially made presentation and historical strata, A Room with a Coconut View is an essayistic investigation of the politico-aesthetic relation through imagery surface and its netlike-technology apparatuses with a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop.
Indonesia / Netherlands, 2022, 59m
Tropic Fever uncovers the racial and spatial imprints of colonial plantations and their entanglement with our contemporary society.
India, 1982, 25m
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Aali traces the history and strike actions of the all women trade union of over 3000 tobacco workers in Nipani (Karnataka). It was made in collaboration with female tobacco factory workers.
India, 1981, 25m
Molkarin exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionising, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana (Pune City Domestic Workers Union) to fight for their rights.
Canada, 2021, 13m
When a young Tamil-Canadian woman comes face to face with another version of herself as a paramilitary fighter for the Tamil Tigers -- her sense of western privilege collides with the reality of her ancestors.
Pakistan / Germany, 2018, 20m
The true story of a rural community's resistance to the building of a coal power plant in Pakistani Punjab, Lok Sath is an experimental short featuring stills, video footage, abstract art and exquisite animations by Iranian artist and filmmaker Neda Ahmadi.
Belgium / Senegal / Burkina Faso, 2019, 1h 3m
Burkina Faso, October 2014. What many had not dared to imagine happened. The people of Burkina Faso put an end to the reign of Blaise Compaoré. Rapper Smockey, a member of Balai Citoyen, is one of the architects of this change, of the victory of utopia over reality.
Indonesia / Japan / Qatar / South Africa / Finland, 2019, 1h 28m
Pesantren offers a rare look inside an Islamic boarding school, showing the practice and ideology of a traditional educational system based on peaceful religious teachings that has been practiced in Indonesia for centuries.
Philippines, 2021, 17m
This video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), exploring the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire.
Indonesia, 2014, 21m
Mama Dobo, Mama Maria Gema, Mama Yakoba and Mama Anas are four mamas who among many others are often asked for help by the residents of Karaka Island to assist mothers giving birth.
Senegal, 2002, 1h 44m
Proud and independent, Mati, also known as Madame Brouette (“Mrs. Wheelbarrow”), makes a living by pushing her wheelbarrow through the marketplace in Sandaga, Senegal.
Ghana, 2023, 10m
After some years of grappling with a mental health struggle that stole pieces of his personal and professional life, Fofo finds his way back to his true love: Cinema.
Philippines / Canada, 2017, 26m
Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise) is a science fiction documentary that uses the backdrop of Hong Kong and the various ways in which the Filipina migrant worker occupies Central on Sundays.