Green Years

Two friends spend two days camping by the seaside in Portugal. Dedé’s previous brush with suicide and its consequences on their relationship are eventually addressed…

Drifting through videoclips online can easily leave you distracted, lost and back at square one. Imagine finding a series of clips organised by a sense…

There are two bus stops with the same name next to La Cumbre Palace, one going down and the other going up. The impassive building…

“One day, my mother died. It was a beautiful, cold day. I stayed with her for a while, then I left. I criss-crossed the roads,…

When an old fan breaks down in a cluttered attic in Marseille, the sweltering heat forces a middle-aged Portuguese man and a young Cameroonian to…

“An attempt to reconstruct the house of my grandparents, the only tangible place where my memories still reside and the djinn (ghost) of my grandfather…

A woman on her daily commute to work receives a phone call from her son. She recounts to him her Sunday routine. Meanwhile, her retired…

Numerous ruins in contemporary Turkey are evidence of the Armenian history of Anatolia. Doğan seeks an Armenia turned into memory. A ruin emerges through natural…

An intimate exploration of vision, both literally and metaphorically, following the loss of the director’s former partner. Liang’s own laser eye surgery leaves a lingering…

A family returns to the beach where the father drowned seven years ago. It is the first time they go to the seaside together since…

In Bologna, there is a group of churches that were originally pagan temples dedicated to Isis before becoming Christian. In Porto, a student restoring a…

After dreaming of her father’s death, a young woman begins to imagine and inhabit the turbulent landscapes of his dreams and memories, uncovering fears that…

The first week of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. As routines dissolve and the existential threat renders inaction unbearable, three observations converge to form…

A young man travels from Lisbon to Sintra to visit his lover at her country house, unaware that her husband has just arrived from Paris.…

Someone is sitting in the waiting room. The sound of the wind gradually changes into the screams of anti-abortion activists. Mary and Jesus cry. This…

Valencia. A video artist walks along the roadside, filming people. People carry stories, but so do objects. A stick on the road. A photo and…

The film brings together two individuals—an immigrant filmmaker from Belarus and a ten-year-old girl from a southern village in Kyrgyzstan. Through fragments of their lives,…

A new ping-pong racket revives memories of Tianji’s friend. Before reaching out, he comes across a social media post about his puzzling vote in the…

Ninety per cent of what we consume is shipped to us by boat. Capital is concentrated and distributed in ports, where land meets the sea.…

On a ferry in Greece, Pina and Ola set sail on a holiday destined for adventure. When their bond is tested by their ‘daddy complex’,…

After the death of his beloved Marian, Romanian painter Murivale keeps his memory alive through hundreds of portraits of him. Just as Leonardo da Vinci…

A contemplative immersion in hybrid moments combining army practices, animal training and virtual reality creates a surreal mindset, as simulations steadily diverge from reality. How…