To explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown, filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck turn their cameras directly on society itself and take a look at how this obsession has begun to change our very own behaviour.

A father and daughter traverse the vast, winding backroads of rural Russia in Ilya Povolotsky's stunning debut fiction feature which premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight in 2023.

Argentine-British artist filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland proposes a cinema of tactility. Closely observing the work of archivists, archaeologists, naturalists, and others, her films investigate museological and environmental conservation as a creative process. This programme consists of a selection of works made between 2006 and 2021 and is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

The Oscar-nominated feature from German writer-director İlker Çatak’s is a brilliantly observed drama, which expertly explores the fault lines of contemporary society.

The first Mongolian film to ever play in official selection at Cannes, writer/director Zoljargal Purevdash’s beautifully photographed debut feature is a hope-filled coming-of-age drama about resilience and determination against the odds.

Grandma’s Grammar traces the persistence of the figure of the grandmother as locus of feminist historicity in non-fiction film, considering the grandmother as cinematic medium and privileged subject for modelling alternative modes of storytelling, inter-generational genealogies, and archives of memory and lived experience.