SLET 1988 
Marta Popivoda | 2025 | France, Germany, Serbia | 20’ | digital | Serbian spoken, English subtitles 

In an empty gymnasium in New Belgrade, a modernist suburb of the Serbian capital, dancer and anti-Milošević activist Sonja Vukićević is training. Now moving alone in the space, her movements once were at the centre of the crowd, performing a lead role in the final Yugoslav Youth Day celebration in 1988. Since that time, ideologies have shifted, nations have splintered, and wars and genocides have taken place, and Vukićević’s body has aged through this all, a body as an archive.

 
The Case Against Space 
Graeme Arnfield | 2026 | UK, France | 73’ | digital | English spoken 

Graeme Arnfield’s second feature The Case Against Space depicts, what appears to be, the first organised strike beyond Earth’s orbit. The film reconstructs the events of the 1973 Skylab 4 mission: in protest against the pressures and working conditions aboard their space station, commander, pilot and science pilot ceased work and cut communications with mission control. Drawing on transcripts of exchanges between the crew and NASA, Arnfield combines extensive research with speculative interpretation, imagining the tensions and human dynamics that led to this unprecedented event. He employs a distinctly lo-fi aesthetic, recreating the Skylab space station in a studio. The astronauts’ testimonies are performed by actors and filmed in claustrophobic close-ups using 1970s CCTV black-and-white cameras. The intersection between technology and ecology is a recurring theme in Arnfield’s work. This new project extends these ideas and upon his earlier found footage works to craft a compelling reconstruction of a unique moment in the history of space exploration.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.