20 - 30 Nov. 2025
A collective and immersive experience inviting you to poetically explore your grief—whether from the loss of a loved one, a friendship, a home, or even a dream—in a personalized and introspective way.
In this hybrid film combining the past and present, Stefan Djordjevic returns to his family in his native village, where an injured dog and the wind help them heal from his mother's death.
See full detailsJack Hardy | 2024 | English | S.T English
The joy of fishing for Jack, a curious and charismatic 10-year-old enthusiast, shines through the screen during a day on the water with his grandmother and through clips from his YouTube channel. (HSB)
See full detailsJean-François Caissy | 2025 | French | S.T English
Jean-François Caissy invites us into the chaotic, authentic world of early childhood with his candid composite images of the group’s interactions, confrontations, and curiosities.
See full detailsMade up of powerful, symbolic images, this captivating and poetic cinematic testimony explores an inventive and free-flowing look at exile, memory, and the future.
See full detailsMélanie Courtinat | 2022 | English | S.T. English
A melancholic journey based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.
See full detailsMarion Burger, Ilan Cohen | 2023 | French, English
It is the story of a man who’s lost his ability to speak, and his daughter who seeks to communicate with him, exploring aphasia as if it were a distant land.
See full detailsLui Avallos | 2023 |
In his living room, a retired playwright unveils a revelation to the spectator : he is losing his memories and seeks companionship to reconstruct his cherished remembrances.
See full detailsSinging Chen | 2022 | Mandarin | S.T. English
Inside the former Green Island Prison, political prisoner A-Kuen recounts stories of imprisonment and persecution that took place in Taiwan in the 1950s.
See full detailsUgo Arsac | 2023 | French
An immersive journey through France's nuclear fission and fusion plants, featuring interviews with experts on the future of energy.
See full detailsGilda Pourjabar illustrates how Western pop art has slipped through the cracks of Iran's repressive political regime to light the rebellious sparks in young people.
See full detailsThrough the lens of a family story, the film traces diaspora, Taiwan-United States history, and Cold War legacies, unfolding within the intimate fabric of generational memory.
See full detailsAt the crossroads between documentary and fiction, Swirl takes us to a village in rural Brazil to paint a poetic portrait of Bastu, a lively and vibrant octogenarian.
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Let yourself be carried away by the urge to sing at the top of your lungs and share your favourites on the microphone.
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In this cinema lesson, part of the O Grivo Retrospective: Crafting Sonic Landscapes, musicians Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira immerse us in the soundtracks of works from different eras, connected by a visceral dialogue between visual and audio narration. The space where image and sound meet and interact is ideal for exploring their translation through concepts such as texture, spatial organization, superimposition, perspective, density, speed, repetition and fragmentation. The duo offers a glimpse into the many facets of contemporary and experimental creation in today’s documentary cinema, while addressing some of the aesthetic principles that guide it.
Layla Tosifi | 2024 | Persian | S.T English
Combining archival footage and contemporary recordings, the director paints a complex portrait of mother-daughter relationships across three generations of her Iranian family.
See full detailsIva Radivojevic | 2025 | Albanian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian | S.T English
Nurtured by the mythology of Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn, and inspired by the filmmaker's grandmothers, this short film pays tribute to women warriors throughout history.
See full detailsLei Lei | 2024 | Mandarin | S.T English
Through experiments bridging film and wood engraving, craftswoman Chen Meiqi's anecdotes tell the story of this Chinese art form.
See full detailsFelipe Casanova | 2025 | Portuguese | S.T English
Using a hybrid approach, archival footage, and a fictional character, this short film tells the stories of Brazilian Black mothers mourning their child’s death by the police.
See full detailsKarin Pennanen revisits the creative world and personal archives of her uncle Markku to develop a fascinating artistic dialogue with him in a surprising and touching posthumous tribute.
See full detailsOn a Beirut beach, three men expose their lives to the filmmaker’s attentive gaze. Dima El-Horr captures memory, loss, and resilience amid Lebanon’s perpetual political turmoil.
See full detailsBella Sutra is a live cinematic performance about the messes we make as people, as a society, as families, and as humans. An honest and deeply personal essay about life as an innkeeper in Bella Coola, a remote mountain village in British Columbia, the film reflects on our current communication crisis, the rural/urban philosophical divide, and the myth of progress. A deeply personal essay on hand-developed 16mm films, this screening is accompanied by a live soundtrack and narration.
Presented by OK Pedersen, Eden Glasman, Jakob Tokarczyk, and Peter Hošták.
Emeline Courcier uses artificial intelligence as a tool and metaphor, drawing from her Vietnamese family’s memory and their philosophy of erasing the past to build resilience.
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