Propositions

The Propositions strand is a hybrid of discussion and online screenings that dive deep into new cinema and share discoveries encountered through artists’ and filmmakers’ research, experience and practice.→

Kat Anderson: Restraint Restrained

Renèe Helèna Browne

Tiffany Sia: Never Rest/Unrest

Zinzi Minott

Kat Anderson: Restraint Restrained

Ireland, United Kingdom

22 mins’

Tiffany Sia: Never Rest/Unrest

Focus

Izza Génini

A pioneering woman in Moroccan cinema, Izza Génini’s practise sits solely within the realm of narrative documentary. As someone who was born in Morocco, grew up in France and returned there as an adult, her films grapple with themes such as diasporic identity and traditional Moroccan heritage, particularly focusing on the music of the country.

Aïta

Return to Oulad Moumen

Rhythms of Marrakech

Vibrations in Upper Atlas

Aïta

France, Morocco

28 mins’

Return to Oulad Moumen

Vibrations in Upper Atlas

France, Morocco

27 mins’

Of mountains and melodies: On sound, tradition, and community in Izza Génini’s Rhythms of Marrakech

by Eilidh Campbell

Essay

Filmmakers in Focus: Izza Génini in conversation

6 October 2020, 20:00

Online Event

Génini’s Documentaries

by Stefanie Van de Peer

Essay

The Ebb and Flow of Music

by Yasmine Benabdallah

Essay

Essential Cinema

Our pluralist retrospective series that provides a revisionist view of what might be considered classic works of cinema.

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Badnam Basti

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

Manuela Lazic, Alessandro Luchetti, Maria Saakyan

Armenia, Russia

86 mins’

Life’s tender resilience: On reunion and separation in Armenia, joy in the face of conflict, and a cinema of nostalgia in Maria Saakyan’s Mayak/The Lighthouse

by Ilinca Vanau

Essay

Essential Cinema: Márta Mészáros

11 October 2020, 15:00

Online Event

Essential Cinema: Badnam Basti

7 October 2020, 20:00

Online Event

Essential Cinema: The Lighthouse (Mayak)

24 September 2020, 20:00

Online Event

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Focus

Angelo Madsen Minax

US-born filmmaker and artist Madsen Minax crafts his short films and videos in various breaths—ever so often personal, experimental and transgressive ones. Within these breaths, Minax approaches and investigates queerness, trans identity and sexuality, mysticism and death, family bonds and social justice, in a many-layered approach to image-making.→

At the River

Because of Us

Forward into the Afternoon

My Most Handsome Monster

Forward into the Afternoon

United States

6 mins’

My Most Handsome Monster

Filmmakers in Focus: Angelo Madsen Minax in conversation

8 October 2020, 20:00

Online Event

All My Exorcisms Have Failed: Notes on a Few Angelo Madsen Minax Works

by Steve Reinke

Essay

New Cinema Competition

For the first time, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Competition includes Short, Medium and Feature length films. The strand encompasses the Festival’s view of some of the most distinctive works of new cinema and artists’ moving image being made around the world today.→

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At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade Into Each Other

The Name I Call Myself

At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade Into Each Other

Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Palestine

21 mins’

Don’t Rush

Elise Florenty, Marcel Türkowsky

Belgium, France, Germany

Jessica Dunn Rovinelli

Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela

Portugal

37 mins’

The Name I Call Myself

Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Existence and disappearance: On documentation, the un-real image, and surveillance as a biopolitical weapon against Palestinian life in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s At Those Terrifying Frontiers

by Jessica McGoff

Essay

An interview with Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela

by Herb Shellenberger

Essay

Yu Araki in conversation

Podcast

Stefan Ramírez Pérez in conversation

Podcast

Rhea Dillon in conversation

Podcast

Phạm Ngọc Lân in conversation

Podcast

Nelson Makengo in conversation

Podcast

Moouad el Salem in conversation

Podcast

Maria Anastassiou in conversation

Podcast

Luke Fowler in conversation

Podcast

Jessica Dunn Rovinelli in conversation

Podcast

Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky in conversation

Podcast

In, Out, Out, In: Maria Anastassiou’s Way My It Did I

by María Palacios Cruz

Essay

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Focus

Payal Kapadia

Over the past decade, Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia has built up a remarkable collection of short films. In particular, a trilogy of sorts made between 2015–18—The Last Mango Before the Monsoon, 2015; Afternoon Clouds, 2017; And What is Summer Saying, 2018—stands as a massive achievement and as a hybrid form of new cinema.→

Afternoon Clouds

And What is the Summer Saying

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

Afternoon Clouds

India

13 mins’

And What is the Summer Saying

India

23 mins’

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

India

19 mins’

Filmmakers in Focus: Payal Kapadia in conversation

26 September 2020, 17:00

Online Event

Dreams of Direct Love: The Films of Payal Kapadia

by Kelley Dong

Essay

New Cinema Competition Features

A brand new remodelled New Cinema Competition, where all selected filmmakers share the Berwick New Cinema Award. For easy viewing the selection is presented in two screenings, one for short and medium length works, and the second for features.→

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Desterro

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore

N.P

The Year of the Discovery

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Desterro

Maria Clara Escobar

123 mins’

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore

The Year of the Discovery

Luis López Carrasco

Spain, Switzerland

200 mins’

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

Lesotho

120 mins’

Translating unspoken words: On death, the erotic, and translation in Lisa Spilliaert’s N.P

by Ren Scateni

Essay

What has not yet come: On climate crisis, colonialism, displacement, and ancestral inheritance in This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

by Natasha Thembiso Ruwona

Essay

Sky Hopinka in conversation

Podcast

Maria Clara Escobar in conversation

Podcast

Luis López Carrasco in conversation

Podcast

Lisa Spilliaert in conversation

Podcast

Cait Pansegrouw in conversation

Podcast

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Focus

Ayo Akingbade

In her own words, Ayo Akingbade’s work “addresses notions of urbanism, power and stance”. Characteristic of her films is a contemplation and celebration of the rhythms of everyday London life, as well as the histories and legacies that move through it.→