The “fight-or-flight” reaction is a bodily state which originates in an acute stress situation. This sort of experience can be defining and cause lasting trauma. So, what to do in the moment when fear and disorientation suddenly strike? Fight or flight? Memories migrate to the new home. Parents try to pass fragments of their culture on to their children, who themselves initiate rituals and customs. The staggering identities require courage and care to satisfy their parents’ and their own expectations. Especially women from the Arabic diaspora struggle with this process, because obedience is regularly expected from them in conservative families. An autonomous sexual orientation can be a taboo in the family. However, not only parents have expectations of their children. They, too, often struggle to accept when parents enter unexpected life-paths. A program that is dedicated to the intergenerational search for meaning, identity and localization. (Afsun Moshiry)
This is a documentary film about the events that are currently taking place in Ukraine. Unique video recordings, real excerpts of students of the Kyiv City Academy of Pop and Circular Art, located in Kyiv on February 15, 2022, where they interact with their thoughts on the upcoming war.… >>>
On the outskirts of Paris, Inti, Jai and Pauline are looking for an empty place. A rift through which the “Trouble Generation” they embody could slip, between the laws of the old world and the uncertainty of the one to come. A portrait of our time that oscillates between documentary film, art performance and surrealism.… >>>
“Haddad’s THE BEATIFUL ROOM IS EMPTY explores the loaded memories of space through his aunt, Marie, (re)visiting her childhood home and recalling the abuse she endured there. […] What have the walls been listening to? What have they absorbed, retained, and released upon a return, a farewell?” Writer: Sarah Sarofim, Canadian Art… >>>
In Simon Dickel's film "Ready for Ransom," the late protagonist Ransom Bradford (1937-2013) talks about his decision to undergo shock therapy with the aim of becoming straight. At the same time, the filmmaker takes the filmed interviews, which he had kept in his closet for 17 years, as a starting point to reflect on his friendship with Ransom – as well as on their age difference of 36 years. The film invites the viewer to reflect on the ways social norms and stigmatization relate to emotions and are inscribed into bodies. It addresses love and loss and treasures relationality and gay desire.… >>>