Turn on the radio. Tune in to a station that shouldn’t exist. Sense the air thicken with thoughts and words from below. Witness the emergencies of war, rampant capitalism and inequality, colonial aftermaths, and environmental decline. Filmmakers hone our ears to underground frequencies of dissent, liberation, and restorative justice.

This performative screening will be followed by a conversation with festival artists. Sunset Seduction Sunset Seduction stars a liberal philanthropist yearning for his next fling with radical politics. Made as the Palestine solidarity movement escalated in 2024, the work unfolds in essayistic fragments considering ideas of freedom, violence, and the seductive capture of revolutionary ideology. This

A fluxus detective follows clues with too much data removed. Alienated youth forge performances and perform forgeries, redefining healing work with a new aesthetic of paranoia. Lonely lives are transformed with a trick mirror and a roar.

Messages for a mitochondrial Eve are transmitted through time, connecting choices made in the past to renditions of our future selves. Works of reinvention, correction, and augmentation explore the construction of identity through archetypes, ancestral mythologies, and matrilineal lines.

Let us think through other eyes as they gaze upon this world so that we may unsettle reality and liberate doubt. We are looking for a version of the truth – in soft shadows, from the corner of a private room, under harsh fluorescents, through careful microscopes, or in memories made visible on film. Here,

The Shards In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into a chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way of coping with the grief is to fixate everything with