New Visions

In an uncertain future, when Vietnam is about to be submerged, a son far from home re-imagines his family’s memories. This is Quý’s first feature,…

In the year 2045, a man living on Mars examines footage of his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he…

In an abandoned hospital on the outskirts of Brussels, strangers come and go, while ghosts linger. Among the broken glass, a young streamer performs a…

In an abandoned hospital on the outskirts of Brussels, a young streamer known as Porcupine performs a live sex show for an on-line subscriber. Under…

Set in a confined world outside of time, East of Noon tells the story of Abdo, a 19-year-old prodigy who uses music to rebel against…

Aida, a 33-year-old struggling actress from a provincial background finds herself homeless on the streets of Cairo, alongside her reclusive neighbour Samiha, a 70-year-old bourgeois…

Palestine and life confined, or Palestine and the proliferation of political and poetic glimpses of liberation. Taleb Lachheb’s assemblage of materials—from Henri Laborit’s neurobiology to…

Two Meters of This Land takes place on a summer evening in Ramallah (West Bank), where a popular music concert is being prepared, and will…

Sarah and Laurent are high mountain guides scrabbling around the moraines of the Mer de Glace [Sea of Ice], with no clear objective. Named by…

Two directors and a translator are editing archive footage from a collective film shot by young Israelis and French people in Israel and the West…

Ahmad Natche’s final, unfinished film premiered posthumously at Doclisboa. In The Storyteller, we see a rehearsal for a new play at the El Hakawati theatre…

“Spring equinox 2024: 20 March at three hours, six minutes, twenty-one seconds (GMT). Vattetot-sur-Mer, in the Pays de Caux region of Normandy. Gaza is being…

In The Storyteller, we see a rehearsal for a new play in Jerusalem. Ahmad Natche focuses on those who watch, and on the empty chairs…

In financial precariousness, and following the promise of a contract, Bernard (played by Meilleurat himself) takes on the task of recording his memoirs for an…

“The daylight shadow of a man in its movement evokes lights in the night. A rose held in hand reflects both sun and moon like…

An eight-year-old girl is found dead, killed by her parents, the inquiry reveals a life of mistreatment. Meilleurat reads the eponymous book by Frédéric Boyer…

1901. The adventurer Lumière Brothers’ camera operator, Gabriel Veyre, disembarks in the Land of Nour on a three-month contract. He was to introduce the venerable…

Gabriel Veyre was a cinematographer for the Lumière brothers and an inventor of cinema. Travelling with his camera, he was dedicated to capturing the wonderful…

“In the spring of 2025, the National Centre for Visual Arts and Lieux Fictifs invited me to make a film with inmates at the Baumettes…

The furniture that has been in the building since the 1970s has been stacked and is waiting to be removed. The modular elements of the…

A deteriorated film, shot in a Latin American country in 1982, presents a succession of everyday images. A few stand out, testifying to the violent…

“From the disordered-saying(s) of a lifetime, to the material tracings of an unstructured narrative, All said done is less a portrait of a person than…

Sunless Haven animates dispersed fragments of historical documents and architectural remnants, looking at London’s river Thames as a resonant chamber connecting disparate worlds. It attempts…

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of on-line terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Lého Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B.…

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of on-line terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Lého Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B.…

Afterlives delves into the historical traces of extremist propaganda and the efforts of those resisting its violent impact. The film explores how to confront the…

This is the story of Sagrario, a shellfish gatherer from the Ferrol coast, and her thousand faces. It presents us with an aloof mother, a…

Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to…

A romantic journey down a side road. An exploration spanning several years and covering an area no larger than one kilometre in diameter. From her…

The world is turned upside down. On the surface, the city sleeps peacefully, yet a voice stirs beneath, whispering unrest.

“One of the people who appeared at the end of the film The Urgency of Death visits the house where she lived as a child…

A trans-temporal film that tells the love story between Nadir, a Moroccan student, and Edyta, his Jewish editing teacher, at the Łódź Film School in…

Mitrovica is an ethnically divided city in Kosovo, home to both Albanians and Serbs. The landscape, frozen by conflict, narrates two poems about dying mothers.…

“Earlier I walked past the Mole Antonelliana, perhaps the most brilliant work of architecture ever built — strangely, it has no name — as a…

Using rare and long-forgotten footage, this film uncovers the secret workings of Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship in Paraguay, one of the longest-running regimes in history. From…

Stela is a 36-year-old woman with a higher education who is incapable of holding down a job. Since she was little, she has been in…

“Landscape painter Antônio Parreiras (1860-1937) steps into the realm of the dead. Wandering through darkness, forests and cities, he reunites with old friends, questions his…

In One Power for All the Land, Declan Clarke examines the construction of the Ardnacruscha hydroelectric power plant in County Clare, Ireland, which came into…

Chanasorn Chaikitiporn focuses on the origins of the idea of film archiving in Thailand by examining the work of Dome Sukvong, founder of the Thai…