Status: in a complicated relationship

SCREENINGS

Scenario:

Good morning, it’s me, Nature, No, you don’t trick me with your greenwashing, you do not flatter me with your perfect photos, with which you portray me on your social networks. I know what you have done, I have been here since before you, a long time before you. Let’s try at least to find a balance in our relationship, a way to manage our incongruences which can adapt to the reciprocal changes underway.

Films on the relationship with nature.

Detours While Speaking of Monsters

Deniz Şimşek
Germany, Turkey, 2024, 18’00’’

A 4000-year-old aquatic monster is rendered invisible in present-day Turkey. Its myth dates back to the ancestors of Armenians and Kurds around Lake Van, a region that witnessed the ethnic cleansing of both peoples. However, the monster remains somewhat alive in the tales of the inhabitants, resisting falling entirely into oblivion.

Been There

Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Switzerland, 2023, 10’00’’

Weekend trips, city breaks, a detour into nature or once around the world. Barely a few days off, you're already gone. Never before has the desire to travel been so widespread and visited places so overloaded. What do we get out of it, other than the picture proof that we have been there?

Butterfly

Sunčana Brkulj
Croatia, Denmark, 2024, 8’07’’

A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.

Even Tide

Francesco Clerici
Italy, 2023, 11’00’’

In an unspecified future, in unspecified woods, some solar-powered camera devices, left by documentary filmmakers, are activated with motion sensors.