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Golden Island film image; man standing next to a structure in some water

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Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to survive cannot be erased. Truth lives in memory, inquiry, and the faces of the young, where the hubris and shame of colonizers and oppressive regimes are quietly, unmistakably inscribed.

 

This short film program includes the following films:

A Dream Pointing to Aadchit
Ghinwa Yassine, Canada/Lebanon (18 min)

Haunted by a recurring dream, director Ghinwa Yassine returns home to find her memories changed by war.

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Between Us and the World
Wallace Minchong Li, UK (17 min)

Young friends revisit the site of archival colonial footage, the place where they live and dream in Western Sahara.

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Together
NEOZOON, Germany (14 min)

Early visions of togetherness are contrasted with the rise of individualism, questioning the urge to possess and protect.

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Golden Island
Arief Budiman, Indonesia/Singapore (23 min)

Arief and Edi exchange photoshopped memories of Papua, constructing utopian illusions of the land.

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Ghazal-E Sorkh
Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK/France (19 min)

A personal recollection of betrayal built on fragmented films, commissioned by the Shah.

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The Recce
Daniel Mann, UK/Germany (16 min)

Exploring cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries binds the fiction of filmmaking to the fiction of state-building.

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Director

Various

Country of Origin

Various

Year

2025 & 2026

Language

Various

18+
115 min
Animation Art, Music & Photography Comedy Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Human Rights & Social Justice LGBTQIA2S+ Shorts Women Directors

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Thursday October 01

6:15 pm
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The Cinematheque
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Friday October 09

1:15 pm
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International Village 8
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See more shorts in this series

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Golden Island film image; man standing next to a structure in some water

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115 min

Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to endure cannot be erased.

The Cinematheque International Village 8
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Display Nature film image; woman with a weird plastic-y affect in the air around her head

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100 min

At the intersection of culture, technology, and capital, a yearning for human connection and the possibility of release endures.

The Cinematheque International Village 8
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Cartografía film image; person holding a bundle of red tape

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89 min

Interior worlds reveal wisdom, intuitive connections, the esoteric, and death. Or is it liberation? A bid to commune with the feminine, other realms, and ghosts.

The Cinematheque International Village 8