EXPLORING REALITIES

People from the past are roaming the streets of presentday Budapest: manifestations of survivors’ memories. Taking a city walk they visit places where the violence of World War II will be forever inscribed. What happened here remains a secret of the past now – one that is impossible to forget.

Southeast London. Merged animation and archival footage create a lens thought which systemic causes of youth violence are explored. Starting with the voice of a mother, conversations around the British criminal justice system build up, targeting knife crime as a symptom of a wider societal problem.

A woman is stuck in a world full of stains, spots and repetitive thoughts. At first scattered and nightmarish, a story of domestic violence becomes increasingly visible. An individual narrative that can be spun much further, eventually appearing as a comment on a violent patriarchal system.

A girl’s life is shattered by the diagnosis of Covid-19. In the online frenzy that evolves, she becomes not only a victim of the pandemic but also the target of cyber-violence and misogynist hate speech. Based on the case of Zhao, a Covid-19 patient in Chengdu in late 2020, ‘Apologize’ critically explores the violence she had to face.

Four old women reflect on their long-unspoken past. Their recollections merge into a single voice that is exposing memories infused with violence, in which intimacy cannot be disentangled from power and motherhood not from coercion. Archival footage and animation are creating a language for those that have been unheard, rejected, and distorted t...

A window opens onto a timestretched queer space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around internal dialogues a conversation is forming that explores models and preconceived ideas about intimacy and sexuality. A reflection needed to cultivate utopias – within them or as shared visions.

Lada finally wants to transition – not only within the loving relationship with Vika but her whole life. Animation and documentary blend, telling a complex family story they come uP with to ensure Lada’s safety: Her brother has gone to Siberia and his sister Lada is now here to help the family he has left behind.

18-year-old Fatu is wearing makeup in public for the first time in his life. A simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-wracking as going to the moon. Luckily his best friend is there to ferociously support him throughout this voyage towards a sugarsoaked safe space full of cheese balls.