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I. HOPEPUNK This ‘ethno-fic­tion’ selec­tion is dystopic and yet full of hope and humor. The per­fect ped­a­gog­i­cal dose for coping with colo­nial­ism, cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change on an indi­vid­ual and com­mu­ni­ty level.  1. RECLAMATION - TJ … read more

This spe­cial cura­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Emer­gent Futures CoLab (@emergentfutures) unfolds a new mode of making and view­ing films. Blur­ring the bound­aries between fic­tion and non-fic­tion, this selec­tion of films pushes us to attend to … read more

Saul William’s fan­tas­tic musi­cal fea­ture Nep­tune Frost (2022), sets the tone for the coali­tion series “Hack­ing Time Mines”. In the Afro­fu­tur­is­tic sci-fi musi­cal, the myth­i­cal encounter of a miner and the inter­sex Nep­tune sparks a … read more

Unusu­al per­spec­tives and per­son­al approach­es to their topics and pro­tag­o­nists char­ac­ter­ize the pro­gram of the STUDENTS’ PLATFORM, which com­ple­ments the fes­ti­val with a diverse selec­tion of inter­na­tion­al debut films and final works of film, visual … read more