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Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to survive cannot be erased. Truth lives in memory, inquiry, and the faces of the young, where the hubris and shame of colonizers and oppressive regimes are quietly, unmistakably inscribed.

This short film program includes the following films:

A Dream Pointing to Aadchit
Ghinwa Yassine, Canada/Lebanon (18 min)

Haunted by a recurring dream, director Ghinwa Yassine returns home to find her memories changed by war.

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Between Us and the World

Wallace Minchong Li, UK (17 min)

Young friends revisit the site of archival colonial footage, the place where they live and dream in Western Sahara.

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Together

NEOZOON, Germany (14 min)

Early visions of togetherness are contrasted with the rise of individualism, questioning the urge to possess and protect.

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Golden Island

Arief Budiman, Indonesia/Singapore (23 min)

Arief and Edi exchange photoshopped memories of Papua, constructing utopian illusions of the land.

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Ghazal-E Sorkh

Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK/France (19 min)

A personal recollection of betrayal built on fragmented films, commissioned by the Shah.

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The Recce

Daniel Mann, UK/Germany (16 min)

Exploring cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries binds the fiction of filmmaking to the fiction of state-building.

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