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An Asian Ghost Story
A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.
Bo Wang / Netherlands, Hong Kong / 2023 / 37 min / World Premiere
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Bruises
A sensory film from the twilight between two worlds. In a village on Mexico's southern coast, a small community lives in a complex, spiritual bond with nature's animals.
Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda, Ginan Seidl / Germany / 2023 / 90 min / World Premiere
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Drifting Woods
A non-linear, interdisciplinary film work that explores a vast forest area where human and non-human life forms are part of an organic and polyphonic narrative about the history and possible future of the forest.
Pia Rönicke / Sweden, Denmark / 2023 / 100 min / World Premiere
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Pacific Club
In the 1980s, a nightclub in a futuristic Paris suburb became a haven for the city's Arab youth. The forgotten story of the Pacific Club is brought to life in Valentin Noujaïm's beautiful, elliptical film.
Valentin Noujaïm / France, Qatar / 2023 / 16 min / World Premiere
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The Secret Garden
An adventure in eight chapters about a secret garden on the outskirts of an unnamed town, which one day wakes up overgrown with new and unknown plant species.
Nour Ouayda / Lebanon / 2023 / 27 min / World Premiere
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The Society of the Spectacle
You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism. Satirical and self-critical film adaptation of Guy Debord's theoretical masterpiece, and a frontal attack on the all-encompassing spectacle we live in.
Roxy Farhat, Göran Hugo Olsson / Sweden / 2023 / 94 min / World Premiere
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