MATSU GA EDA WO MUSUBI: A Branch of a Pine Is Tied up

Murata Tomoyasu, Japan 2017
colour, Japanese with English subs, 16‘30“

The twins are separated by a Tsunami. A snow globe connects the present and the past. While going back and forth between the present and the past, the dead twin girl gets her memories back.

SEASONS OF GOODBYE
Philippa Ndisi-Hermann, Kenya 2018
colour and b/w, English, 14‘


‘The seasons had not decided on their endings and beginnings, so we lived in the space between.’

MY MAMMA IS BOSSIES
My Mum’s Bonkers

Naomi van Niekerk, South Africa 2017
colour and b/w, Afrikaans with English subs, 3‘30“

My mum’s bonkers. Out of one eye she cries Puccini, out of the other she reprimands me.

GIKAN SA NGITNGIT NGA KINAILADMAN
From the Dark Depths

Kiri Dalena, Philippines 2017
colour and b/w, Tagalog/Visayan withEnglish subs, 27‘

A woman mourns the drowning of a young communist revolutionary that took place years ago. She sinks into herself and recreates a story that coalesces memory, delirium, and forgetting.

SALADDIN CASTISQUE
Anssi Kasitonni, Finland 2018
colour, Finnish with English subs, 5‘30“

A man walks through the forest and tries to find berries. Instead, he finds an empty French dressing bottle. A genie comes out of the bottle and grants the man three wishes.

MAIS TRISTE QUE CHUVA NUM RECREIO DE CÓLEGIO
Sadder than playtime on a rainy day

Lobo Mauro, Brazil 2018
colour, Portuguese with English subs, 14‘


Scenes of Maracanã. Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment vote by the Lower House of Congress in 2016. The 2017 Labour Reform for the super wealth of businessmen. A World Coup in Brazil.
(Oberhausen On Tour)