SELF diss played (2015), 4:50
Isabella Gresser

In our post-privacy world the river is a peripheral place for escaping desires in the digitized cities. To disappear is getting more and more difficult, since we multiply ourselves all the time. More…

Avec destination à… / Con destino a… (2009), 4:00
Said Messari

Homage to the 10 immigrants who died in the summer of 2007 on the coast of Arinaga. XXI Festival Theatre South-Encounter of Three Continents. More…

THE RIGHT TO LEAVE (2013), 4:00
Sharon Paz

The work deals with borders and migration, transformation and displacement of lives, a loop of movement that ends by returning always to the same entering point. More…

Heroica (1999), Spanish with English subtitles, 10:19
Gabriela Golder (Argentina)

Anonymous women, women between hung sheets who imagine monuments. Four women. Four histories interconnected in a silent and private choreography, live with their memories within the everyday life of a foreign country. More…

Speechless (2009), Without words, text in Georgian and English, 12:00
Salomé Jashi (Georgia)

The 2008 Georgian War resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and expulsion of tens of thousands from South Ossetia. More…

Stand Here! (2010), Hungarian with English subtitles, 5:00
Csaba Nemes (Hungary)

Stand Here! is a puppet animation. The script provides a brief, concise and accurate summary of one of the most prevalent prejudices against Romani people: an inclination to theft. More…

An Ocean Between Us, without subtitles, 6:23
Mónica de Miranda (Portugal)

An Ocean Between Us deals in spatial ambiguity with melancholic undertones: ships for maritime travel become stages where symbolic umbilical cords unite the lost parts: an ocean and a river, a mother and a daughter, a lost love, and the promise of a re-encounter are the elements of a catharsis. More…

A Drone Wrapped Up in Flying Carpets (2012),Pashto with English subtitles, 6:06
Riaz Mehmood (Pakistan/Canada)

An Afghan warrior action figurine acquires a more complex personality as he is transformed from a one-dimensional target of vilification to an ‘everyday’ human in search of meaning. More…

Mantra, without words 5:30
Gordana Andjelic-Galic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

I walk down this empty and lonely but freshly paved stretch of the road carrying a Bosnian state flag. During my journey, other flags, which historically represented Bosnia and Herzegovina, any of its constitutive nations or from decisive historical periods of ruling ideologies, are handed to me at regular intervals. More…

Al Hissan – The Jenin Horse (2003),Palestinian Arabic with English subtitles, 26:37

Thomas Kilpper (Germany)

A horse, five metres tall, built out of scrounged metal taken from destroyed houses and cars during workshops with Palestinian youth in Ramalla, is towed through the streets of Jenin and later, almost 200 km away, through the occupied territories of the West Bank. More…

5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown (2009), spoken English and Chinese with English and Chinese texts, 10:00
Shelly Silver (USA)

10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown. More…

23rd August 2008 (2013), spoken English, 22:00

Laura Mulvey, Mark Lewis, Faysal Abdullah (UK)

23rd August 2008 consists of two shots. A brief opening shot, intercut with inter-titles, of the famous Al Mutanabbi Street book market in Baghdad is followed by an unbroken eighteen-minute monologue, shot from a single, still camera position and simply recording the speaker’s words without interruption. More…

Collective Breath (2014),without words, 6:45
Neville Gabie (UK)

During four days of the WOMAD music festival [2014] Neville Gabie and his team collected the breath of 1111 [one thousand, one hundred and eleven] people in individual 3 litre bags. More…

Hollywood (2004/2013), 12:20
Daniel Brefin (Switzerland)

Kutaisi, Georgia, a former open air cinema has been transformed into a church where a projection screen is still visible. By means of cinematically animated photography and interviews Hollywood approaches the dreams, hopes and fears of local people. More…

Pirimze (2015), 41:00
Sophia Tabatadze (Georgia)

This film researches social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor edifice from the Soviet era, built especially to house repair and maintenance services. The theme unfolds to a broader picture and shows what has been happening in Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. More…

Corridor 2010, 10:44, without subtitles
Guy Wouete (Cameroon)

A video based on a series of small video clips and photographs taken in immigrant camps and on the streets of Malta, all in slow motion. It combines a soundtrack litany specifically designed with images in order to lead the viewer into a factual reality far from a subjective construction. More…

Next Week (boat refugees), 4:49, without words
Guy Wouete (Cameroon)

The result of a research trip to three refugee camps in Malta, Next Week refers to the brutal Darwinism inherent to migrant realities. More…

My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day (2011), 6:18
Heba Amin (Egypt)

A selected Speak2Tweet message of a man professing his love to Egypt prior to the fall of the Mubarak regime on February 11, 2011, juxtaposed with the abandoned structures that represented the long lasting effects of a corrupt dictatorship. More…

The Woman in Pants, Syrian with English subtitles, 4:15
Abounaddara (Syria)

Syrian film collective Abounaddara (meaning “man with glasses” in Arabic) is an anonymous group of self-taught filmmakers. Since the onset of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Abounaddara has been creating and posting very short documentary videos, what they term “bulletfilms,” on Vimeo every Friday. The group calls their work “emergency cinema” to emphasize the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Syria. More…

Syria : Snapshots of History in the making, 1:09, Syrian with English subtitles
Abounaddara (Syria)

Syrian film collective Abounaddara (meaning “man with glasses” in Arabic) is an anonymous group of self-taught filmmakers. Since the onset of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Abounaddara has been creating and posting very short documentary videos, what they term “bulletfilms,” on Vimeo every Friday. The group calls their work “emergency cinema” to emphasize the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Syria. More…

Prayer in the Dark, 1:35
Abounaddara (Syria)

Syrian film collective Abounaddara (meaning “man with glasses” in Arabic) is an anonymous group of self-taught filmmakers. Since the onset of the Syrian revolution in 2011, Abounaddara has been creating and posting very short documentary videos, what they term “bulletfilms,” on Vimeo every Friday. The group calls their work “emergency cinema” to emphasize the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Syria. More…

Capsular (2006), 23:00, English spoken
Herman Asselberghs (Belgium)

The Spanish enclave Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta stands midway between a city and an autonomous community with a Parliament and president of its own. Formerly an administrative part of the Spanish province of Cadiz, Ceuta, situated along the coast of Morocco, is now fully part of the European Union. This vanguard of European neoliberal and xenophobic refugee policy acts as a contemporary version of the ‘Iron Curtain’. More…