Under harsh weather conditions, workers at a weather station high up on a mountain carry out daily measurements using intriguing instruments. Their dutiful accuracy, the inscrutable repetitive actions, the confinement, the large empty building, the extraordinarily beautiful views and the extreme weather conditions herald disaster.
Three years after the mysterious disappearance of a teenager from a small village, a temporary asylum centre opens next to the field where she was last seen. Around a deep black lake, which ominously beckons residents and newcomers, events unfold that inevitably bring the underlying tensions within the community to the surface.
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.
Bifrost is a hybrid cinematic experiment about how we deal with the tension between control and surrender. Through archival material, observation, and a growing structure, a childhood caught between two incompatible worlds is explored, until the boundary between the two is literally broken.
Autobiography of a Forest is a film from the perspective of a forest as a multiple living entity, depicted in film, sound, a polyphonic text and a musical composition. The forest actively responds to the dramatic changes it experiences in the world.
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.
After the sudden death of his father, young Frederick is confronted with emptiness and the unfathomable grief of his mother and himself. Although he is too young to comprehend everything, resistance grows in him and the desire to change his fate.
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.