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Being John Smith
John Smith
doc2024
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, ‘Being John Smith’ takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
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City of Poets
Sara Rajaei
doc2024
Through archival footage and photos, a metaphorical city of poets emerges, shaping its residents’ inner lives. War reshapes it — new districts rise, streets are renamed, and upheaval leaves inhabitants lost among fading memories of forgotten poets.
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L'avance
Djiby Kebe
fic2024
Aliou, a promising student of the Beaux Arts in Paris, sells the painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the portrait becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned and the significance of the picture for both his sister and himself.
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Man Number 4
Miranda Pennell
doc2024
Gaza, December 2023. The narrator’s dispassionate voice describes in detail what we see on screen. The pixelated image slowly begins to reveal details. It is a photograph sent by a war correspondent to a news channel. When shown such images, do you wonder what you are actually looking at? Who is man number four? The director explores what it means to be a passive observer.
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The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos
doc2024
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender documentary essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.
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