Matters Of The Mind

The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great successes, but he dies. The family nominates his daughter, a law school graduate, to take his place, but she encounters many problems.

On planet Earth, three human baby cubs come into the world squinting their eyes. They play joyfully under the gaze of an astronaut father who tries to immortalise them before his long journey into space. However, it's an expedition of no return. Following in their parents' footsteps and armed with toys, the children experience a blissful world, tailored to humans, and they grow up confident in their ability to conquer it. The stars become reachable, all animals are at their disposal. The earth rumbles beneath them and the fumes of a volcano become menacing. But the protagonists of this story don't seem to realize that they are ghosts trapped in a scratched film. Perhaps, only due to a matter of diopters.

Technology is always present in our lives. In many cases, it improves our lives, but we often are not able to manage it, especially when it reaches the end of its life. This issue can create serious imbalances that affect our planet. The documentary Materia Viva addresses this concept to open up and tackle a series of environmental issues: recycling and resource management, the circular economy, and topics like climate change and climate neutrality

The title Green Matters refers to filamentous green algae which is growing excessively in the Baltic Sea. Green Matters approaches eutrophication from a new perspective. Considering the enormous importance green algae had in the evolution of flora and fauna, its importance as an essential source of oxygen, and its energeticand nutritional values, it truly deserves our respect. Moreover, we can be fascinated by its beauty, when observed in its underwater surroundings. Mia Mäkelä studied green algae and their possible use applying traditional rug-making techniques. Her project aims to help the eutrophicated Baltic Sea by foraging algae and putting them to good use.

In New York, the Federation of Black Cowboys keeps alive the memory of African-American cowboys in the Old West. As many as one in four cowboys in the pioneer days was black. A fact that has been whitewashed from history and popular culture.

An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and lingers for an instant. My phone camera documents wandering figures by a lakeside at night. Across from the lake, the sight of the dissolving cityscape appears to be both infinitely close and extremely remote. This film attempts to reconstruct the forgotten and the marginalized parts of individual beings in the scope of time. The film explores what’s beyond the visual expression and flows out of the flat screen to co-inhabit the space of the audience’s reality. The viewers would find themselves roaming through the ontological existence of film, confronted with sound, light, darkness, time and rhythms, transitioning between positive space and negative space, and approaching the very ambiguity of memory.

Abstract animation film whose main theme is “matter”. It is developed in four different acts/movements, each one with a distinct graphic and sound universe, globally constituting a journey through the four major states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma. In each of these parts three conceptual dimensions coexist, corresponding to three different areas of human knowledge: science, art and religion.

A series of complaints directed at the camera that nobody wanted to take care of before. It turns out that the complaints focus on policemen, a sergeant, and a master corporal.

Peter returns to Poland from Iraq war. He is not happy to find his sister living with her lesbian girlfriend in their family home. Brother does not accept his sister's sexual orientation and tries to get rid of her partner, but even the mother defends the girls. Will the family manage to overrule him?

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Unseen follows Jess and Ryan Ronne, a blended family with 8 children, including Lucas, who has profound disabilities requiring total care. Their situation has gotten more and more challenging as Lucas gets older and stronger. With limited resources and support, caregiving takes a toll on their physical and mental health. It’s a common story among parent caregivers: the isolation, uncertainty about the future, lack of options, and a never-ending daily to-do list means the role of caregiver overpowers nearly every other facet of life. Video diaries from diverse caregivers featured in the film illustrate this universality, while interviews with mental health and policy/legal experts provide a broader view on the societal impacts. Through the power of unfiltered, compelling human stories, Unseen cultivates compassion and tangible support for the caregivers in our communities.

A successful New York architect with a beautiful wife and an adoring young son is forced to reevaluate his outwardly idyllic life after a chance meeting with an urban designer reveals the cracks in the foundation of his paradise.

The site of the famous Oracle, Delphi spanned two great classical civilizations - the Greeks and the Romans - and attracted travelers from all over the ancient world. The city's walls contain the hopes and dreams and the victories and failures that defined entire civilizations.

Lu Ban's second short titled The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles (不拘小节的人 bùjū xiǎojié de rén). He carefully toned down the political satire here, switching his target to intellectuals instead of bureaucrats. The main character, Li Shaobai, is a rude literary critic who goes to a conference to lecture about satirical literature. Li is absolutely full of himself, and constantly misunderstands other people. Like Before the New Director Arrives, The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles was greeted with plenty of positive responses. Still, while Lu tried to be more careful with this second short, this didn’t stop some critics from taking issue with its ridiculous main character and humor.