Survival Is Not Enough

Life and Other Problems

Max Kestner , DenmarkSweden, 2024, 99'

What is the meaning of life and death? Max Kestner gives an energetic and imaginative answer in his adventurous film which begins with the killing of a young giraffe.

My Stolen Planet

Farahnaz Sharifi, GermanyIran, 2024, 80'

An intimate story of inward emigration, an autobiographical hymn to freedom, this handcrafted documentary weaves Farah's memories onto fragile film.

Occupied City

Steve McQueen, The NetherlandsUnited Kingdom, 2023, 266'

Questioning the role of memory, future and freedom through the events that took place in Amsterdam since World War II till today.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Johan Grimonprez, BelgiumFranceThe Netherlands, 2024, 150'

With the Congo independence as its backdrop, the film fuses the wave of African independence, the U.S. civil rights movement, the Cold War and the U.S. most unconventional weapon: Jazz.

TeraForma

Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin, Ireland, 2023, 62'

The remote volcanic Island of Ascension sat lifeless for a million years, until it was ‘terraformed’ by Victorian scientists into a tropical paradise.