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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Curtain Call

Overview of films

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    Henna-Riikka Halonen | 8' | Finland | World premiere

    This kaleidoscopic compilation film about biogenetics, 3D printers and new models of artificial intelligence raises questions about new forms of virtu

  • Polte

    Sami van Ingen | 15' | Finland | World premiere

    From a few surviving images from the Finnish film Fallen Asleep When Young (1937), an other-worldly melodrama is distilled. Passion, deeply human

  • Private Human

    Valérie Mannaerts | -

    Hanging like a baroque drapery, this fusion of soft, flesh-coloured fabric with metal ornaments evokes the interior of the body and the organs it cont

  • Puppet Theatre

    Robbrecht & Daem | -

    Blending modern architecture with elements of fairy-tale castles, this futuristic toy theatre also folds together into a rocket, pointing to the heave

  • Red Balloons

    Izaki Yasunari | -

    A ladder defies gravity with the aid of two bright red balloons. Its triumphant pose is at the same time the denial of its very…

  • Résistance

    Laurence Favre | 11' | Switzerland | International premiere

    The eternal quiet of a mountain ridge is but a deception. Melting glaciers constantly change the surface and uncover old traces of human presence.

  • Shelter #6

    Sarah van Sonsbeeck | -

    Shiny aluminium and gold-coloured sheets were once a typical ingredient of aeronautic aesthetics. Nowadays most people identify it with an emergency b

  • Silent Room

    Simon Heijdens | 540' | -

    A long matt-black building offers an immersive experience of silence and peace, forming a black hole in the sensory overload of its outside environmen

  • Stardance

    Chantal van Rijt | -

    Dust particles float about in front of a black backdrop. Lit by rays of light, they dance in all directions in a timelessness equal to…

  • Thomas Pesquet, l’étoffe d’un héros

    Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, Jürgen Hansen | 72' | France | None

    On 17 November 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet was sent to the International Space Station by the European Space Agency for six months to c

  • A Timeline in Four Layers

    Agence Future | -

    A three-dimensional timeline introduces the rich history of future-oriented thought and practice from which the conceptual tools of futures studies ar

  • toxiThropea

    Various Artists | -

    toxiThropea poetically researches the tense and toxic relationship between humans and nature and exposes our inability to maintain our only biosphere.