Bella Sutra is a live cinematic performance about the messes we make as people, as a society, as families, and as humans. An honest and deeply personal essay about life as an innkeeper in Bella Coola, a remote mountain village in British Columbia, the film reflects on our current communication crisis, the rural/urban philosophical divide, and the myth of progress. A deeply personal essay on hand-developed 16mm films, this screening is accompanied by a live soundtrack and narration.
Instead of asking, “Why so much meth in the gay community?,” Cortés’s experimental film provokes the deeper question, “Why so much pain?” The film delves into the emotional and social wounds that fuel addiction and risk-taking behaviors.
Realce is a documentary short following two HIV-positive friends, DJ Deseo and porn actor Fernando Brutto, during one of their performances at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. The duo move through the streets of Rio and Carnival “blocos,” sharing their reflections on friendship, undetectability, their relationship with sex, and drug use within their own community.
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The year is 2025. A radioactive fallout has plunged the world into utter chaos. Governments have been unable to contain the destruction. Entire cities have collapsed, and society has lost all semblance of civilization. These are times of chaos, need, desolation, survival, and unknown circumstances. Dante and Lucía survive against all odds. Lucía falls ill with a fever, their meager resources are dwindling, and Dante must leave the shelter to search for supplies. On his journey, he encounters his destiny.
Set in the middle of Australia’s relentless housing crisis, this sketch comedy follows two painfully incompetent real estate agents as they attempt to sell the most absurd properties to desperate young buyers.
In the mid-90s, the upbringing of triplets is altered with the arrival of Ana, their younger sister. Through a family trip, the director portrays this bond among sisters.
After 12 years of documentary courses being absent as a form of Integrated Practicum in the Film Department at IKJ, Bikeska, Paul, Arrivo, and Raihanul chose to break the tradition. Amidst the dominance of fiction films, which are considered more prestigious, they chose documentaries due to budget constraints and a desire to respond to the world in a more honest and intimate way. Their poetic documentary film captures two layers of reality: a man who draws architectural spaces, and the laborers who build them. However, the process led to a creative crisis and the images were too structured as the treatment felt like fiction filmmaking. The question arose: were they recording reality or constructing it? The camera turned around, highlighting the team’s process and confusion. Ultimately, the film not only captures space and labor, but also reflects that documentaries, like buildings, are the result of construction and choice.
How to capture the violence that remains on the walls? How to address absence, more than forty years after the events occurred? Memory that seeks its place amidst the blood and broken glass.
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