Donna Haraway's work is marked by a deep commitment to feminism and environmentalism. Her approach to science, gender and trans-species relationships proposes new ways of understanding our world beyond normative structures. Over several weeks Fabrizio Terranova lived in Haraway's Californian home, filming her and dog Cayenne. Combining this footage with other material, Terranova creates a filmic fable in tune with Haraway's own storytelling.
This debut feature from Portuguese artist Filipa César is a powerful reflection on cinema's role in the creation and legacy of West African political history and national identity.
By investigating the work of filmmakers including Sana Na N'Hada, Flora Gomes, José Bolama Cobumba and Josefina Crato, Spell Reel follows the process to preserve the history of revolutionary cinema in Guinea-Bissau which documented Guinea-Bissau's war of independence from Portugal.
César follows the process by which a country's fragile artistic and social history begins to be reclaimed.
Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, Also Known As Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Eric Beaudelaire's cinematic work employs "landscape theory" (fukeiron in Japanese), originated in the film AKA Serial Killer.