Life cycles on despite our perceptions; but some days an awakening happens.
An Orange for Jaffa
Mohammed Almughanni / Palestine / 2024 / 29 mins
A young Palestinian man is desperately looking for a taxi that will allow him to cross a checkpoint. Farouk, the cab driver, hesitates because the young man does not have a permit. At the checkpoint, Farouk discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the border… trouble begins.
Mist
Xixi Li / China / 2024 / 4 mins
An emotional digital girl living in a virtual world and a society addicted to technology. She is caught at the boundary between psychological illusions and reality.
Memories of an Unborn Sun
Marcel Mrejen / Algeria / 2024 / 22 mins
Written upon testimonies, rumours and fake news, this film questions architectures of energy shaping the Algerian territory from its colonial history to the rise of Chinese extractivism, underlining the multiplicity of reality in our post-truth era.
Percebes
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Goncalves / Portugal / 2024 / 11 mins
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called Percebes, goose barnacle.
The Dawn
Alice Mendy / Switzerland / 2024 / 29 mins
When a parasite contaminates all the drinking water of Dakar, pills are created to neutralise it. Alioune, a young man, can no longer afford them and is exposed to the symptoms of the parasite: madness and dementia. As the days go by, he realises that he has never been so lucid, and he begins a journey of political and spiritual awakening.
