Directed by Xiaolu Wang • 2024 • United States
A one-take recording captures a family’s visit to the bamboo green at the foot of the Helan Mountains.
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Before Seriana
Directed by Samy Benammar • 2024 • Algeria, Canada
“Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about these harsh landscapes I learned from books written by the hand that burned these mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do y...
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Landscape Suspended
Directed by Naghmeh Abbasi • 2022 • Iran, Canada
Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, LANDSCAPE SUSPENDED reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.
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121280 Ritual
Directed by Antoinetta Angelidi • 2008 • Greece
Filmed in 1980 and completed in 2008, Antoinetta Angelidi’s candid self-portrait is a song to life and an incantatory vision of pregnancy as a kind of ritual.
