A House

Sweden’s largest and oldest co-living house lies on the outskirts of Stockholm. It has 300 residents, all of them women. For more than eighty years, the house has been a sanctuary for women who have rejected marriage as a form…

The Tree of my Yearnings

After ten years of yearning for a child Zühre can’t stand anymore and forces her husband Ömer to have a second wife in the hope of Ömer’s becoming a father. Bearing the consequences of her decision would not be easy…

12 Kalpas: a Beginning of Beginning

In one moment prior to creation, at a familiar yet unknown space and time, binary, rationality, biology, and essences are complicated and intertwined. The artist re-imagines scenes from a Southeast Asian Buddhist myth-folktale, Twelve Sisters, which was told to her…

Arboretum

Erik and his best friend Sebastian are two teenagers in a small town on the German border that once ran between East and West. Their parents are struggling with their own demons and they are bullied at school. Life doesn’t…

The fans

Nikolay and Ruslan roam the streets of Moscow, fraternize with skinheads and hang out in Nikolay’s apartment decorated with Spartak FC insignia. Ruslan adores luxury cars and despises their owners. Though yearning for intimacy with Ivan, Nikolay has sex with…

Spirits We Dance

Two contemporary dancers take viewers on a poetic journey as they show us what life is like being a disabled dancer in a harsh, urban landscape. Confronting the stigma they face in Ghana, Afriyie and Alfred take us on an…

It´s gonna be fine

At Christmas dinner undertaker Karsten is confronted with his parents’ plan to commit suicide. He may be used to death, but still he does everything in his powers to stop his beloved mother Marion and his Parkison-suffering father Theodor. But…

Prison Pass

A young boy gets a pass for his wedding. At the same time, his father finishes prison term. The father (car thief) is soon visited by gangsters to whom he owes a favor. He knows that he can’t do the…

Rosanzi

A teenage girl and her band of misfits form a young group of neo-Nazis. The friends are like family. They live by their own rules and push the limits of morality, but eventually loyalty is put to the test.

Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds

The video investigates the complex relationship between language and cultural identity in our contemporary times. Instead of considering languages as simple communication tools, here they become viruses able to contaminate each other shaping new identities and geographies.The starting point of…

Nomad Meets the City

Former herder Tumurbaatar works tirelessly as a garbage truck driver in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, striving to better his daughter’s education and compete in the modern economy. Torn between life in the city and his home and family in…

Living Heritage: Cheongsam

From Fleur in the movie “Rouge” or Su Li Zhen in “In the Mood for Love”, both the glamorous patterns and the simple cuttings of the cheongsam embody the beauty of traditional Chinese women. Sewing, fabric cutting, binding production are…