Phantoms + Fallen Noon + The Futora + Compact Disc
Four short films about ghosts, technology and the fragile relationship between body and image: 'Phantoms' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Fallen Noon' by Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen, 'The Futora' by Yuqing Lin and 'Compact Disc' by Rico Wong.
Phantoms
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Netherlands & Thailand / 2025 / International Premiere / 11 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.
Tilda Swinton wanders around her family’s home in the Scottish countryside. The familiar (and very beautiful) surroundings envelop her with a slight aura of something foreign and unreal, while with just a single sentence she intervenes in the stream of luminous images and gives them a whole new, inner meaning. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work is shot on analog film and consists of a simple but immensely effective technique of allowing two separate images to overlap, thus evoking a ghostly atmosphere of timelessness in the classic and elegant rooms. The work was originally created as a double-channel installation for the exhibition ‘Tilda Swinton – Ongoing’ at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
Fallen Noon
Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen / France & Vietnam / 2026 / World Premiere / 16 min
A fragmented love, a fallen system, a drifting city: in the quiet unrest of Hanoi’s youth, memory flickers; tired, persistent, and endlessly returning.
In contemporary Hanoi, haunted by the echoes of an unfinished love between a Vietnamese worker who left for East Germany in the 1980s and the woman who stayed behind, what remains after the collapse of an ideology lingers in faltering bodies, muted gestures, and misty corners. Echoes of the past ripple through a drifting generation: an inherited fatigue, a quiet unrest, a looping refrain, a trembling future. Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen’s film is a slightly melancholic and deeply atmospheric story told in elliptical black-and-white images.
The Futora
Yuqing Lin / China & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 13 min
Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.
The film follows an unidentified ghostly entity that travels through nocturnal shimmer. It is an ‘egregore’, a collective being formed by unconscious memories. Inspired by 1980s and 1990s Chinese children’s science fiction media, the film reimagines electricity not just as infrastructure, but as a living force. The images drift through the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city, where unfinished imaginings of the future slip into another world.
Compact Disc
Rico Wong / Hong Kong & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 38 min
After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.
Years after experiences of interrogation and imprisonment, the director gathers his close friends to return to fragments of a past that never fully passed. Together, they look at images and moments once sealed away, not to reconstruct events, but to sense what still lingers. As memories surface through scars, dreams, humor, and silence – and through obsolete technology – the film traces a shared attempt to make space for one another, and observes how trauma lives on in the body and in everyday life. Some images return clearly; others remain unstable, fading or breaking apart. Rather than filling these gaps or moving past them too quickly, ‘Compact Disc’ stays with them—searching for what might emerge when unspeakable moments are allowed to exist, held collectively, without demand for resolution.