Another Country

How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags

2022

Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the suburbs of San Francisco. In great detail they pose with their newly achieved wealth in front of their Super-8 camera. Just like postcards, they would send these film rolls to their joint families back in India. Around the same time, an American missionary couple visits the city of Calcutta to shoot a Christian propaganda film. The drastic reality with poverty and famine in the streets of the Indian metropolis fits perfectly into their wicked plan: To promote the faith in Jesus by showing the misery that pagan believers are doomed to suffer from.

Spirit

2026

A celebration of home and belonging in South London. This is a film that tows the line between documentary and narrative, and celebrates neighborhood and the rhythms of everyday life in South London. Friends for over a decade, their closeness runs through the piece; rooted in lived relationships, it resists spectacle in favor of quiet intimacy.

Chanson de gestes

1966 · ★ 6.5

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

Note "A"

1973

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a children's music school in Leningrad and organ master Justin Prončketis.

Ringar på vattnet

2001

A documentary about the role of a local newspaper in the small community of Ulricehamn. Instead of focusing on the technicalities of newspaper production, the film shines a light on what really matters – why the newspaper exists, what it means to its readers and how it connects people in the community.

The Bowens: A Portrait of an American Family

2026

What does it take to raise an American family today? What kind of values should be instilled into children? Is the future too dangerous, unpredictable and grim? Meet The Bowens - a new kind of American family that decided to take matters into their hands and work together to navigate uncertainties of life through relentless self improvement, strength, discipline, and loyalty.

Long Ago

2026

A story of long, long ago. When the world was just beginning.

Many Happy Returns

2026

A letter made up of excerpts, fragments, and details from cinema and its predecessors. Images and sounds—collected over the years. I thought that these images might reorient my life, change its course, move its solitude towards travel and association.

María K

2020 · ★ 10

A secret figure in French underground cinema, Maria Koleva has filmed all over Paris, written about Marx and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Serge Daney. This documentary is a portrait of a histrionic Koleva, trying to reveal her militant, poetic and cinematographic universe, located in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

Rise and Fall

Rise and Fall is a two-channel video installation by artist Fiona Tan, exploring the relationship between memory, time and identity. Two women from different generations appear in similar landscapes, their everyday routines interwoven with gestures that evoke memories and connections across time. Images of moving water serve as a metaphor for the fluid relationship between past and present, as memories and experiences continually overlap and influence one another.

The Taste of Tea

2004 · ★ 7.5

A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

The Cereal Aisle Effect

2026

On Thanksgiving Eve, a looming hurricane strands four strangers inside a small-town grocery market. As the storm stalls and tensions rise, secrets are unearthed, unexpected bonds form, and redemption emerges in the unlikeliest of aisles. A contained dramedy about connection, empathy, and the fragile humanity we find when forced to stop and face each other.