Thoughts ripple over the pages of a personal notebook, kept during a stay at different science labs in Zürich. They float from one to another, like a mind map of unfinished ideas on memory, medical imaging, cells, and aging. Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. Her films Mr Sand (2016) and Freeze frame (2019) travelled to numerous festivals and received jury awards at Clermont-Ferrand, Ann Arbor, Annecy, Fantoche and Animafest Zagreb. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, ZHdK's a-i-l programm, Saari residence and AniDox:Residency. She freelances as a stop motion animator and is a guest professor at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels.

Shaped by mysticism, resistance, and the voice of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, we take a personal and poetic journey through the anti-colonial past and present of Guinea-Bissau...

Welket Bungué born in Guinea-Bissau in 1988. He descends from the Balanta ethnicity, and he's based in Berlin since 2019. Bungué is a transdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance and video. His cross-cultural education, from Africa, Europe, and Brazil, made himself a cross-national multitalented artist...

A found footage examination of what happened at the lake today. Where were you? An exquisite corpse by Non Films. Images randomly selected from found footage; poem written without images; music written without images or words. Brian Ratigan is an award-winning animator and director who is a champion of independent film. He is the founder of Non Films, a label for ephemeral animation and experimental cinema in New York City. Ratigan is established in the film festival circuit as a programmer and jury for Slamdance Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and the London Indie Festival, among others. Ratigan serves as Director of Animation for Kumar Pictures and co-manages Chaotic Cinema.

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.

Douwe Dijkstra (1984) is a filmmaker and visual artist from the Netherlands. He studied Illustration Design at the ArtEZ University of the Arts. His work is a mixture of video, animation and VFX, and can be described as both humorous and socially engaged. His projects range from short films and documentaries to video installations and theatre performances.

A Carousel in the Rain is a short film about finding happiness in being by yourself through difficult times and looking for a glimmer of hope in finding your love and sharing true happiness. Jaro Jääskeläinen was born in 1989 in Finland. First steps in filmmaking he took in 2002 when he started experimenting creative ways of capturing moving images on his family video camera. Over the years he has participated in various film productions, in which he has had diverse roles. By compelling storytelling through different genres his vision is to positively affect the way that people are experiencing films. Since 2010 he is producing new film projects through his production company TALJA Films. He currently divides his time between his home country Finland and Hungary.

As we walk through the streets of a past Mariupol through a computer screen, the recurring presence of a bicycle intrigues. Who owns it?

TWO SUNS IN THE SUNSET is a short video essay through the P.O.V. of a terminal patient who seeks salvation in his last moments. Education 1988-1992 studied painting and drawing at the Artistic High School "Jordan Misja" in Tirana, specializing in classical graphics and graphic design 1992-1996 studied painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana getting specialized in fresco and monumental paintings.