Films
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Tea
Blake Rice
United States, Fiction
While rehearsing asking out the girl of his dreams, a lonely and highly allergic Circuit-Shack employee gets stung in the throat by a hornet.
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The Beguiling
Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby
United States, Fiction
What seems to be a burgeoning romance between two Indigenous people takes a sinister turn as one grows suspicious of the other. When confronted, deceit turns their romantic evening into a darkly comedic nightmare.
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The Currency - Sensing 1 Agbogbloshie
Elom 20ce & Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper
Germany, Togo, Taiwan, Experimentation
A landscape of electronic equipment leftovers, embedded in biting clouds of smoke, burnt earth and dirty water.
In Agbogbloshie - one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites in the middle of Accra - they were dismantled and burnt in order to return their metals to the industrial recycling cycles.
In between, an observer who, by means of acoustic field research, investigates this place as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes and questions this from a spiritual perspective.
In Agbogbloshie - one of the world's largest e-waste recycling sites in the middle of Accra - they were dismantled and burnt in order to return their metals to the industrial recycling cycles.
In between, an observer who, by means of acoustic field research, investigates this place as a contact zone of complex global economic, social, power-political and technological processes and questions this from a spiritual perspective.
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The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, Animation
Short & Queer Award winning film offered by MainFilm.
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
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The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos
Great Britain, Documentary
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
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The Hum
Laurie Dufort
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In the valleys of Taos, New Mexico, David receives a strange call from his wife, Margaret, who is exploring an archaeological site in search of inspiration. Worried by her enigmatic message and the mysterious humming on the phone, he rushes to find her.
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The Lemonade Stand - Making Medecines
Paul O'Bomsawin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The Lemonade Stand is a project about the relationship between Paul and his daughter Lyric in the context of their learning about plants and remedies. Through this project, Paul aims to provide a strong foundation for his daughter so that she can integrate and grow within her community. In this film, Paul and Lyric aspire to share the lessons they have learned along their journey with other children.
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The Long Valley
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck & Robert Machoian
United States, Documentary
The film is a meditation on human's difficulty accepting reality and the passage of time, while still finding room to dream. It documents the people and landscapes of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.
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The Magician
Mathieu Gauvreau
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A magician must save the struggling venue he works in. As he secretly posseses real magical powers, he must choose between following his passion for sleight of hands or the cheap thrills of his powers
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The sentry
Jake Wachtel
Norway, United States, Cambodia, Fiction
A suave spy's routine mission in Cambodia gets complicated when a surprisingly talkative local guard forces him to face the human cost of his actions.