From the Earth to the Moon continues on its course, helping us to map a world that is becoming increasingly difficult to decipher. Atlas of Disappearance follows the search for the remains of those who went missing during the Spanish Civil War. In O Nosso Último Filme sobre Lisboa, the Left Hand Rotation collective imagines the traces of shared struggles in a city threatened with disappearance. Alea Jacarandas revives the soul of Algiers, and The Land that Wouldn’t Die revisits a country that doesn’t exist: GDR. While Forest Up in the Mountain explores a long history of systematic state violence against the Mapuche people, All you need to make a movie is a gun rediscovers the lost films by students who disappeared during the military junta’s time in Argentina. Last Movies revisits the history of cinema through the last films watched by famous figures such as Kafka, Kennedy and Cobain. Casa do Artista, which could be described as a sanctuary of humanity, takes centre stage in Solveig Nordlund’s film. The cinema projectionist in Palestine, protagonist of Habibi Hussein, dedicated his entire life to bringing images to the big screen. As Slavoj Žižek says in The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias: “Our duty is to see things as they are, and to do that, we need cinema.”
Tomás Baltazar, Boris Nelepo
