"In March 2018 I arrived in Suwa, an isolated community of about 80 inhabitants in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. I lived there for 2 months and developed a close relationship with the children, who taught me and helped me with everything necessary to “survive” in that territory. So came the idea of a documentary that would follow the day-to-day lives of these extremely independent children, showing their intimate connection with nature, as well as their relationship with the new technologies, quite recent in the community. At a time when indigenous communities in the Amazon are under a strong permanent attack, intense deforestation driven by external economic interests, it seemed urgent to me to give them some visibility. Starting from the very specific universe of children, this film draws attention to the importance of establishing a more sustainable relationship with our environment."
- Inês T. Alves
Inês T. Alves (Portugal, 1987) studied Cultural Narratives at the Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH), Santiago de Compostela University (Spain) and Bergamo University (Italy). She also studied Documentary Film at the University of the Arts London, with a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’ Scholarship. Apart from her filmmaker career, she develops film workshops with different communities and all ages, having collaborated with several associations. She is one of the founders of MOVIMENTO, a collaborative film workshop that happens every year in Portugal since 2015. Her short films were exhibited in several film festivals in Portugal and abroad. Her short documentary, Around Corners, about the post-colonial city of Maputo (Mozambique) in relationship to her family memories, won the New Cinema Award in Porto/Post/Doc Festival (Portugal). Juunt Pastaza Entsari (Waters of Pastaza) is her first feature film.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 16:00 / Main Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 18:00 / Main Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.
Love Kjærlighet
Dag Johan Haugerud
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 20:30 / Main Hall
Sex, Love, and Dreams–not necessarily in that order–are the chapters in the trilogy exploring contemporary relationships, set in modern-day Oslo. In Love, the director invites us to reflect on our desires and expectations regarding sexuality, relationships, and intimacy.