Cairo Streets
Abdellah Taïa | 2025 | France | 19’ | digital | Arabic & French spoken, English subtitles
Cairo Streets is an archival travelogue composed of camcorder footage collected by filmmaker Abdellah Taïa during a trip to Cairo in 2007. Traversing the city in search of his lost love Omar, Taïa’s journey unfolds through a series of vignettes: a visit to the office of legendary filmmaker Youssef Chahine; a night shoot at the pyramids; a vibrant boat party. Drifting through smoke-filled barrooms where men huddle around buzzing television screens, the work weaves tender furtive encounters shaped by intimacy and nostalgia.
Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep
Marthe Peters | 2026 | Belgium | 13’ | digital | Dutch spoken
In Lost Cat, Mary Gaitskill writes: “Human love is grossly flawed, and even when it isn’t, people routinely misunderstand it, reject it, use it or manipulate it […] an animal can receive love far more easily.” Marthe Peters seeks such an animal in Henry the cat, to share a retreat into a horizontal life, with beds made over and over being the metre of how we spend our quietness and care. An investigation into the loves that mark us wrought through tattoos and drawings in pink ink. “Sometimes I fear I stain you with my love,” she says.
Love is the Drug
Liz Roberts | 2025 | USA | 17’ | digital | English spoken
Love is the Drug asserts the legacy of one of the United States’ first clean needle exchange programmes, the radical publishing it spawned and vital relationships it sustained. The personal, participatory, riot grrl-tinged archives of its protagonists sit alongside – and counter – the obsessive moralising gaze of the right-wing media that covered their work at the time. Behind founder Heather Edney’s effervescent and whimsical ease is a disruptive and community-minded practice, spawned by experiences of adopted motherhood and personal drug use. Traces of her DIY healthcare organising – in her words “underground, illegal and unfunded” – surface from the archives, offering a blueprint for responding to today’s urgent collapse of inclusive, reparative care.
I Dreamed of a Gentle Landscape (Soñé con un paisaje)
Kim Torres | 2025 | Costa Rica, China | 13’ | digital | Chinese & Spanish spoken, English subtitles
Through Kim Torres’ personal and delicate gaze, Chunyan’s days in Manzanillo unfold like a dream. The scent of sea salt drifts through open doors; imagined landscapes blend with ordinary moments. Memories are shaped by distance and time, as life on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast gathers alongside recollections of Enping, China. A gentle portrait of migration and intimacy, where new lives are formed through routine, closeness, and the persistence of memory.
New World
Darryl Daley | 2025 | UK | 4’ | digital | English spoken
This ethnographic moving image study situates the Black body in a condition of perpetual motion, where departure and arrival collapse into an ongoing process. Water functions not only as material but as a medium of passage and a threshold for alternative ways of knowing. This state of flux invokes the transatlantic as historical force and metaphysical horizon, carried through spirit, rhythm, and recursive time.
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
With the generous support of The Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) to the UK and Ireland.