Between Tables(NaN)

Inland Empire(en)

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

La Chinoise(fr)

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles(en)

A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as the shadows made up of those things. Through her journey, she comes into contact with fellow vagrancies: a nondescript man of around similar age; a young girl with similar, even familiar, eyes; streets that can only exist during those brief moments of glazing stares. The rain comes and goes, but the A/C never turns off.

Une brèche écarlate(fr)

Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.

Pandemonium(fr)

Meta: The Dazzling Girl(xx)

In this single character-driven movie, we follow the life of meta, an archaeologist. In her excavation she comes across an old ruin and unknowingly falls trap to a curse. This curse later leads her head to get stuck in a mystical pot. It is the nature’s payback to her unknown karmic cycle.

So I Didn't Sleep Very Well Last Night(fr)

An accounting of dreams I’ve had while filtered as a D*sney cartoon.

L'orrore di vivere(it)

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die

Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid(en)

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.

Vacuumin’ Around(hu)

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Copy/Paste(nl)

A man contemplates whether or not it is possible to do something unique.

The Iron Sea(en)

An experimental short shot on a f0.3 equivalent large format lens

House(ja)

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Woman Is My Last Name(en)

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

Blip(en)

A man takes a mysterious pill that gives him the ability to teleport into different times and different places, but with serious consequences.

Skidoo(en)

Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.

Lost Flower(en)

Washed ashore and taken in to a gothic manor by an unseen masculine force, a lost girl dances in gratitude before him until one day she says no and begins to suspect she might not be the first person to be brought here.

Anticipation of Interruption(en)

Going, returning; the anticipation of interruption.

Routine(hu)

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

Mother of Fog(ar)

In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic mythology) to explore the ghosts of British imperialism in the UAE. As its spectre lingers on the horizon, two teenage girls seek to liberate a pirate damned to spend purgatory on a site now being developed into a hotel. Originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Al Qasimi entangles historical narratives with contemporary notions of piracy. In examining how it has been historically and culturally represented, new perspectives of old mythographies come into focus. (Myriam Mouflih)