Films

Screenings of cinema from the Global East, as well as editorial visual essays and explainers on the variety of subjects, video curiosities and archival film treasures, accompanied by thoughts and interviews on moving images

Chris Marker and Iannis Xenakis: Music, or Inner Space

A philosophical odyssey into the origins of music

Music in Everything

The sounding world of Hermeto Pascoal

But The Light Shines Through the Leaves

A cinematic catalog of youthful dreams

Fighting Tyranny Through Poetic Improvisation

Video documentation of a Qazaq song competition

Exodus: An Epic Musical Odyssey into The World of Indo-Rock

Choy Ka Fai’s film for the Sydney Biennale

State of Dogs

A poetic film that captured Mongolia in an era of dramatic change

The 18,000 Worlds of Saodat Ismailova

A video talisman preserving diversity and breadth of thought

The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Gosh

How plants continue to change the course of human history

Aktan Arym Kubat’s “Selkinchek”

The film that started a new Kyrgyz cinema

Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s “Statues Also Die”

African art outside of museums and the Western imagination

Notes on Stone

A video journey from the Neolithic to the New Stone Age

A Lithophone Prelude

From Iceland to Togo, experience the music of stones

“Interiors” Open Call Winner: The Sparrow is Free

A story of hope, told through objects and interiors

Wild Plants of Palestine

A conversation and film on the political power of image and beauty

Home Alone in Kyrgyzstan

A touching story of a father and son separated

Hassan Fathy: Human Reference in Architecture

Rare archival footage of a master at work

Construction Sites and Image Walls

Ute Holl about Harun Farocki's documentary “In Comparison”

Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil: Portrait of an Architect

Reflections from a pioneer of inherited architecture in the Arab world