These films will be screened on:

Friday 28 August 12:00 - 13:15
Sunday 30 August 12:00 - 13:15

Acid City

Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim, US, 2026, 12'

In this exuberantly designed animation, a dystopian future is drawing closer and closer. Floating in toxic water and left to its own devices, the city creates a new social structure beneath the burning sun. With field recordings from the streets of New York, this animation offers something rare in a time of climate threat: hope.

Blue Heart

Samuel Suffren, HT, 2025, 15'

Their beloved son is gone. Marianne and Petion live in Haiti and wait anxiously for a phone call from the US, where their son has left to pursue "The American Dream". As the silence continues, the line between hope and reality grows increasingly blurred.

With thanks to Square Eyes

Water Girl

Sandra Desmazières, FR/PT/NL, 2025, 15’

Mia has spent her entire life free diving, fishing and floating underwater among seaweed and rocks. It has been a hard existence; time has left its mark on her body and in her life. Many of her loved ones have since disappeared. Tonight, she reminisces.

With thanks to Spouts Film Festival

Déjà nu

Already Naked

Ralf Hellat, CH/CI/SN/GN, 2023, 14’.

Déjà Nu is an adventurous mix of fiction, documentary, music video and experimental film. Voices, African music and dance, mysterious images of nature and urban impressions come together in this audiovisual poem about life, death, the transient body, loneliness and connection.

With thanks to Cinedans

happiness

Firat Yücel, NL/TR, 2025, 18’

The filmmaker is held 'hostage' by several screens in order to monitor all social media and app groups, with messages about Palestine, Congo, Kurdistan, Sudan, Lebanon... How can you sleep in times of genocide, violence, war, protest? This desktop documentary is composed of short snippets of diary-like texts, interspersed with social media posts and videos, and a web search for solutions to sleep problems.