TICKETS To dance with reality A conversation with Jessica Beshir As she traces the threads between her short work – including her directorial debut, Hairat (2017) – and her unforgettable feature, Faya Dayi (2021), Jessica Beshir will illuminate her approach to cinematography and time. Elaborating on the infinite task of forming and sustaining a cohesive […]

TICKETS Thin Strips Documentary Block Springing from the Enlightenment’s world-in-motion, infrastructure excludes and subjugates as much as it connects and liberates. The dyadic implications of infrastructural development are full of desires and fantasies – eminent domain for the fabrication of totalizing truths in the name of progress. These counter-narratives shine light on nebulous land tenure […]

TICKETS Documentary Block Could oysters deliver the planet from climate collapse? Non-human queer heroes help us imagine different ways of living and experiencing the world, breaking the mold of humanity’s self-destructive tendencies. Transformation comes from below and beneath: in deep waters and scars within walls. Shifting our perspectives could take us far – light years […]

TICKETS A Thousand Fires by Saeed Taji Farouky (2021, FR/CH/NL/PS, 90’) In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all […]