As a displaced man returns home after many years, he finds himself in a ghost city, seemingly frozen in time. Captured in haunting cinematography and using phone calls with the director’s grandmother, TRACE portrays a delusional and bifurcated perception of space, making tangible what it means to be separated from one’s land.
– Koen de Rooij
Also in this combined programme
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God Sleeps on Sundays
A traditional healer finds herself in a fierce rivalry with a Christian preacher determined to seize her land for his new church. -
Piccin gemellone
Identical twins are divided by the age-old question of private property in this contemporary tale. -
Branches from Concrete
A mysterious spectral figure wanders the ruins of a future that never materialised. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 2026
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
