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What is an ethnographic film? Can there even be one? This film is an attempt— or, as we have come to call it, a "botched baby"— of trying to capture and read Humayunpur by thinking of how the city is reproduced by northeast migrants in Delhi. The title is play on words, for the tension and violence that is omnipresent in this process of place-making often goes unnoticed by the "rice beer-paglus" who haunt the lanes of Humayunpur.
An ethnogeographic documentary exploring the song, dance, and revitalization rituals of Alleluia, an Indigenous Christian religion and resistance movement in the Amazonian landscape.
Love. Fear. Sadness. Chris grapples with the fears for graduation and a rocky rhettlationship
Opera is an experimental film that explores perception through a filmic collage constructed with the help of a single light source. Through layered manipulation of that single source, the frame gains the rhythm of multiple sources and a play of light that transforms space and perception. This is a film about how an image can conceal reality – and what happens when it can no longer do so.
After her father dies, Stacy Prewitt tries desperately to bring him back through unconventional means.
A short story about the life and work of Alexey Fishev (The Corner), the leader and inspiration behind one of Russia's most interesting underground bands, "Orgasm of Nostradamus." At first glance, he was an ordinary provincial punk, a heavy drinker who eventually became an alcoholic. But this is not just a chronicle of his downfall, but a portrait film about a man who found himself at the turning point of an era, when one world was already crumbling and another had not yet been built.
Sammy, a recently fostered 8 year-old boy, struggles to communicate with his new family. He is quiet, and only confides in his toys. However, nobody understands that Sammy possesses a peculiar ability to turn playtime into something painfully real.
A director suffering from a lack of inspiration is working on a story. The protagonist in his mind does not want to end up starring in a terrible short film, and thus embarks on a journey to help the director find inspiration.
You realize, once again, that your life is structured around horrible, false fantasies. That what you most deeply believe are things that can't be reasonable, good, or productive. (They can be beautiful, though the beauty is insipid.) And so you construct a film essay. (https://www.emaf.de/en/index/ Access: 27.04.2026)
Grief, the price you pay for love
This mixed-media comedy animation follows Rodger, a young man heading into what should be a routine job interview. When a scheduling mistake made by his original interviewer throws everything off, the fumbling receptionist, Iris, scrambles to rearrange things. Unfortunately, Rodger ends up with Joei, a well-meaning but utterly clueless intern turning the already stressful situation into a chaotic and unpredictable experience.
At lunch on December the 25th, after a very warm Christmas, some cousins argue about many things while they're eating the holiday leftovers.
A man races to catch a train for a job interview... but what if one decision could alter his future forever? Two strangers, three realities, one small moment that changes everything.
Surreal, chaotic and hilariously absurd – welcome to the madcap world of Glue. The cats get stoned, the pigeons get philosophical, and Gambo forgets how to breathe.
