2020 Festival

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In the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, sections of its 3.5-metre edifice have been transplanted to the USA and repurposed as public monuments in sites across the country. Read More

The American Sector + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A masterfully intimate observational documentary depicting life inside a Tehran juvenile detention centre, where a group of teenage girls serve sentences for the murder of abusive male family members. Read More

Sunless Shadows + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A startlingly candid and at times darkly comic insight into the realities of political life in contemporary Palestine. Read More

Mayor + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Unreliable narrators; dramatic reconstructions; testimony remade as myth. Voices summoned from the past are translated into new realities in this short film programme. Read More

Shorts: Absent Collaborators

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A dynamic, impressionistic city symphony capturing Nigerian city Ibadan’s distinct rhythms from a street-level perspective. Read More

Trouble Sleep + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A sect of martial arts champions have devoted the past two decades to their master and his religion, undergoing relentless physical training to prepare for the coming apocalypse. Read More

Faith + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Two mid-length films exploring fraught ecologies and bodies of water. Read More

The Lake and The Lake / Land Underwater + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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- In the rainforests of southern Colombia, an imposing, unfinished concrete highway stretches out across the Amazonian tree line. Suspension presents a visually and intellectually rich study of grand scale human folly that makes clear the futility of attempting to conquer nature. Read More

Suspension + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A probing inquiry into the act—and art—of preserving and constructing history, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s mesmerising debut feature-length work intimately examines the process of museological and ecological conservation through the production of a lab-engineered replica of an elephant tusk. Read More

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Read More

Bottled Songs 1 – 4 + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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From his turbulent life in Compton to the sparsely-inhabited and long forgotten California City, we follow Lashay T. Warren as he looks to make a fresh start amongst its crumbling buildings. Read More

Victoria + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 15

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As their aunt sits on life-support in intensive care, a family gathers to discuss her condition and plan the next steps. Read More

The Choice + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 15