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- WHITE COAL is less a film about coal, although it uses the material as its source of investigation, than an exploration into motifs of industrial films from the 1920s to the present. Loosely inspired by Hermann Melville's The Confidence Men, a story about a blind messenger aboard a Mississippi steamboat, one thread of the film follows a crew of workers on a Polish coal ship. A second thread portrays the architechture and circumstances of coal burning at the world's largest coal burning power plant, located in Taychung, Taiwan.
- DMD KIU LIDT is an anti-music film which follows the Austrian pop-rock band Ja, Panik and their social circle of fellow musicians in Berlin and Vienna. It is a chronicle of a group that centers on the conditions of music-making in a state of prolonged sadness dominated by the shadow of a permanent crisis (of capitalism). The actors - all musicians - play themselves, acting out a consciously absurd drama about art, depression and love.
- Bergmanesque ghosts appear at the bedside of Edward Weki, a 75-year-old Sudanese man suffering from the final stage of Parkinson's: Alma, the nurse of Ingmar Bergman's film Persona, and a female version of Death from his The Seventh Seal help the old man recover lost memories of his life on the island of Farö.
- "Mário" recounts the life of Mário de Andrade, a pan-African intellectual, activist, diplomat, and poet who dedicated his entire life to the cause of building African nations. He ardently believed that independence from colonialism marked the beginning, not the end, of the struggle. From Paris, where he establishes his intellectual home, to independent Angola, Mário spends a life in exile, working and fighting tirelessly for African sovereignty.
- A young woman works as a prison guard in a hopelessly overcrowded jail in central Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer, who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day her father will turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, her fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.
- Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of the rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son. When he arrives, their conversations circle around existential questions and news from afar. Unrest cloaks the world outside. Mother and son grow closer, silence melts into words, and life springs between them. The son leaves, and winter settles in to the forever-outdated house in which temporalities blurs and past and present beat to the rhythm of the same clock.
- Past Futures is a political and poetic reflection on the nature and effects of revolutions. An exemplary starting point for this essayistic film is the March Revolution of 1848 in Vienna. What remains of a revolution? When is it considered to have failed and when and how are its achievements manifested? The film combines historical struggles with today's forms of resistance and reflects on how the practice of collective memory inscribes itself in the presence of a city and the actions of its residents. In view of current political developments, the film asks following Walter Benjamin: Do we have to protect the achievements of the past from the present?
- Eddie, a 65-year-old Sudanese man, lives on a remote Swedish island. Surrounded by screaming birds and carrying a silent past, he wanders around in nature, trying to find meaning in his displacement.
- Deep in the forest, at the center of a collapsed geodesic dome, a man is trying to crystallize his passion for a woman he dreamt up, performing odd ritualistic rehearsals. Could every new actress he encounters be the perfect reflection of his ideal? Reality and its double seem to converge in a strange and volatile mix. Has this man become the demiurge of a spectacle that is beyond his control ?