A film that weaves together diverse stories and narratives, highly revealing of contemporary Brazil: a military agent infiltrating a leftist movement, and a theater group staging the Greek myth of Cassandra. As surveillance technologies become more sophisticated, they also leave traces, demanding that strategies of resistance reinvent themselves. A clash...
THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING
Between the 1930s and 1940s, a Scottish missionary filmed the beauty of Palestine's wildflowers. Between 2023 and 2024, Theo Panagopoulos searched the edges of this archive for images – equally rebellious and beautiful – of a free people. The ongoing genocide casts its shadow, from off-screen and from another time,...
SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE
Between free jazz and African-American spirituality, archive fragments perform a ritual resistance to the historical criminalization of Black ecstasy. The materiality of the celluloid becomes a site of confrontation with the mechanisms of control that silence and imprison. In optical and rhythmic distortions and ruptures, the image vibrates and rebels...
SOMBRAS DE PIEDRA
Out of photographs of an unknown country, images of Sanaa taken by Pasolini and memories of someone dear, comes this beautiful and enigmatic documentary. Brick by brick, the film unravels the ruins of its narrator's memory. (Mariana Mól)
O JARDIM EM MOVIMENTO
Margarida and Rosa, two guides in their twenties, lead a group of tourists through Serra da Arrábida, in Portugal. While they give a comprehensive explanation on the region’s flora, a young man feels drawn to Rosa. When she explains about a rare species that exists only in a range of...
SILENT PANORAMA
A boar runs across a blank sheet of paper. Two hunters go after the animal, discovering new landscapes. Likewise, our gaze wanders through the sheet in search of new images. On the same blank page, Silent Panorama offers us the pleasures of exploring, but also reminds us of the dangers...
MANAL ISSA, 2024
At the edges of the frame, escaping capture by the image, Lebanese-French actress Manal Issa answers questions about career, representation, industry and politics, without ever dissociating them. Meanwhile, Israeli forces attack Beirut, killing more than 500 people in a single day. (Luiz Fernando Coutinho)
MALICIA
Riding down the hills of their neighborhood, Malícia and Chinga do everything they can to retrieve their friend's El Mono bicycle. Young and rebellious, they float above rules, danger and death. (Mariana Mól)
LOCAS DEL ÁTICO
How to build a body for yourself? It all starts with the name. Through the first images of women considered "mad" and supported by textual excerpts from 20th-century French novelist Marguerite Duras, the experimental documentary addresses madness by rewriting voices, bodies, and experiences, from a perspective that interrogates psychiatric practices....
LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED
In this experimental documentary, the unfinishedness of Lloyd Wong’s work, combined with Lesley Loksi Chan's research, brings reflections that span across time. The notions of community, belonging, and collective memory are expanded when raw footage is recovered by The Queer Archives. The term "asian" is mobilized to highlight the lack...