Synergetic

An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.

Documentary about The Ummah Chroma made by alumni from the Ghetto Film School, making their debut as a collective with this film.

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.

A visual celebration of the beauty, strength, perseverance and spirit of the Black community in these troubling times.

An early example of post-war experimental cinema in Germany based on an old belief that each solar eclipse produces a war.

Techno, a futuristic sound falling into the legacy of Black music, but not often celebrated as such. Featuring cameos from Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul, Detroit and Berlin.

The carnival in Bergen op Zoom comes to life with masterful cinematography that places us squarely on the dance floor for a night of raucous fun.

The production of food tells a story about climate change through honest and clear animations by kids from the Limette School in Brussels.

A richly textured panoply of trauma, daily obstacles and moments of joy is accompanied by an original hip-hop anthem of truth and resistance.

Layers, lag and loops hypnotise the viewer visually, as an unknown and faraway voice draws alien lines between Canada and Serbia.

A young woman returns to the city of her birth, where she becomes embroiled in a bitter struggle between young rebels and the Turkish army.

This 1975 debut film of Italian filmmaker Ellis Donda uses architecture, poetry and theatre to develop a semiotic language that is rooted in cinema.

This second season of the cult series again bursts with weird and wonderful productions from fervent young American filmmakers.

This second season of the cult series again bursts with weird and wonderful productions from fervent young American filmmakers.

A high-contrast film that places us in the front seat of a ghostly train ride, accompanied by a live sound performance.

This ritual space invites you to explore metaphysical transcendence, spirituality and self-expression and use the space for their own rituals and traditions.

A post-apocalyptic film crafted from earlier post-apocalyptic films that asks: Did Hollywood predict the attack on the World Trade Center?

A humorous silent film of a man who looks for love in the personals section. An impromptu visit becomes more than he bargained for.

Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot. The kind you can't quite remember right, until it starts to look like something else.

OJOBOCA uses film and slide projectors for anaglpyh 3D images, stroboscopes and music to evoke a magical world in answer to an unhappy history.

Through Hub Tones, Kamasi Washington hopes to connect with his ancestors, merging Freddie Hubbard with African rhythms. Jenn Nkiru visually communicates her ecstatic connection in this hypnotic work.

Chemist Humphry Davy's experimentation with nitrous oxide serves as a source of inspiration for this multilayered play of chemistry and celluloid.

Les Indes galantes (1735) by Jean-Philippe Rameau scores a krump dance battle, allowing for a political reclamation of classicism and art by those often omitted.

Intriguing story of a mysterious homeless man called Kmêdeus (EatGod) who lived on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde. A lunatic or an artist and a philosopher?

Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances 'behind bars', this film is about second chances, forgiving mistakes, rehabilitation, love and exoneration.

This irreverent genre mash-up explores possible perspectives for young Aiden in a not-too-distant future destroyed by poison.

Documentary and fiction mix to tell the little-known true story of the Karrabing ancestors' resistance and escape from an internment camp.

An animation of dead bees contact-printed directly onto negative film, a dirge for the rapid decline of these essential creatures.

A reclaimed cinema in Serbia becomes a hotbed for artistic and political debate. With all the excitement, will it sustain itself or implode?

In 1961, Canadian Inuit were told they had to relinquish their nomadic lives. Powerful film shot by Inuit people on the endless snowfields.

A late-night series exploring evergreen cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality from a new, thought-provoking perspective.

Rocks, an East London teenager, has to look after her kid brother when her mum suddenly disappears. A drama bursting with youthful energy.

Urgent and meditative, political and poetic, this film questions the differences and similarities between military service and imprisonment, and how one might lead to the other.

Almost unbearable tension when Jason, a ritual healer, and representatives of the church face off in a Kenyan court.

A music video with a powerful political punch from a collaboration between animation studio Zorobabel and Belgian prisoners who make music under the moniker Murmuziek.

Eye-witness report on the war that squatters and legal residents of Amsterdam's Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood waged on failing council policy.

Coming straight from Bristol, England, this programme is a transplant of the Cube's unique programming and eclectic style all the way to IFFR.

Unwanted obstacles encountered by a family as they search for one of their own are juxtaposed with questions about the Dog Dreaming.

Police wrongfully accuse young men of stealing beer, while miners intrude on the land and contamination spreads.

Using humour and experimental film techniques, three perspectives are offered on why the motor in an Indigenous family's boat broke down.

A Congolese barbershop breaks out into an ecstatic hybrid of fashion film, music video and social critique about our obsession with selfies and social media.