In the distance, the hairdresser’s van drives into the city. Auke parks his mobile hair salon in front of a shelter—a place where people without homes, papers, or a safety net can find a place to rest. The documentary explores a world often overlooked: homelessness, social exclusion, addiction, poverty, sexual abuse among homeless women, and the position of undocumented and vulnerable elderly people.
An old film clip of a woman in an asylum sparks a personal quest by the filmmaker to understand the meaning of madness. Guided by archival images, intimate conversations and shared experiences of resistance and fragility, his path winds toward Brazil. There, he discovers that the struggle for dignified psychiatry is part of a larger social movement and a long sought sense of shared humanity.
Film in which images of black women are fused into a long visual poem and in which they all together represent the descendants of a runaway slave. The women listen attentively to 127 questions that are asked to them by the voice-over, but no one answers.
In war-torn Gaza, orphaned deaf girl Dina defies skepticism to join a Dabke dance group, guided by choreographer Sami who initially doubts her abilities. As they bond over dance, their resilience is tested when a tragic attack threatens to extinguish their shared dream.
In an audiovisual dance of appearing and disappearing, the nineteenth century optical illusion Pepper’s Ghost and the phenomenon of human echolocation come together in an abandoned theatre. Loud Apparitions shows the potential of shifting focus and sensorially conveys how richly we experience the world when we rely more on sound.
An essay about the difference in which our 2 hemispheres experience the world. These 2 worlds are depicted and interwoven by means of fictional scenes, interviews, documentary images and a soundscape. A portrait of the paradox that seems to dwell in us, which questions the essence of The Enlightenment: that we can predict or replace experiences with our thinking ability.
A family in a semi-utopian town, in an undefined country, is torn by war, socio-political instability and superstition. They take refuge in imaginary worlds: they dance to fight ghosts, turn funerals into celebrations and plan a tunnel through the earth, all to counter the trauma of disappearances, possession and death.
Young writer Dandan ends up in prison. Waiting for days in the dim cell puts Dandan in a deeper state of mind. The alienating interrogations by Prosecutor Elders evolve into profound discussions about art and society. An encounter with the mysterious cellmate Laponder leads to an unexpected turnaround.