“The Mutan tree, well we say tree, but orig­i­nal­ly it’s a liana that uses the tree to climb. And its grasp ends up killing the tree.” In Sarawak, one of … read more

“Even when I close my eyes, I can hardly remem­ber what my vil­lage looks like, but I carry the beauty of Karen state in my mind for­ev­er.” Some say the … read more

RESPONS/With Our Eyes. Protest against the Burqa Ban in Copenhagen, 2018

Affect­ed by the polit­i­cal real­i­ty in Den­mark, WITH OUR EYES exam­ines how col­lab­o­ra­tive trans­gres­sion can break down the stereo­typ­i­cal image of Mus­lims. In the film, the char­ac­ters become par­tic­i­pants by exper­i­ment­ing with role­play. They use their own bodies to por­tray their real­i­ty and expe­ri­ences in Den­mark, and some­times they even imag­ine other futures. It shows a real­i­ty that is both absurd and tragic and cre­ates anger. The film gives the audi­ence a glimpse into the lives of the par­tic­i­pants, who share every­thing at their get-togeth­ers: from every­day encoun­ters with prej­u­dices, to how it feels to be the sub­ject of public debate, to their views about paths to lib­er­a­tion. The film departs from the field of visual anthro­pol­o­gy and oscil­lates between doc­u­men­tary-making and fic­tion­al sto­ry­telling, there­by becom­ing what is also called ethnofiction.

Carlos is the name of a new­born baby in Moscow. His mother is Russ­ian and his father is Guatemalan. This is a prob­lem for Carlos’ mater­nal grand­par­ents, who begin to … read more

Four strangers - same room, same cloth­ing, same city. Four people who would rarely meet in real life, enter into dia­logue. Love, money, faith and some kind of dif­fer­ence. Four … read more

Why do people sing when they work? In Phek, a vil­lage in the hills close to the border between India and Myan­mar, almost all res­i­dents work togeth­er in the fields. … read more

“I can’t be cer­tain what will happen with this dig­ni­ty in you when you decide to come, too.” In his auto-ethno­graph­ic film EMAILS TO MY LITTLE SISTER, the Ethiopi­an direc­tor … read more

On the eve of the post­poned Con­golese elec­tions, two Con­golese and two Bel­gian cineasts are col­lab­o­rat­ing on a film about Kin­shasa and its resis­tance against the lega­cies of colo­nial­ism. The … read more