POLITICS OF PLACE
67 min
CINEMA: SAT 8.3., 14:00 / METRO Kino
SUN 9.3., 14:00 / METRO Kino
The films in this program examine the social, economic and political realities that shape – and are shaped by – the spaces we inhabit. They critically analyze processes of exclusion and displacement by illustrating the repercussions of gentrification, hyper-capitalist urban development, immigration laws and overtourism on the environments we live in. Collectively they ask: who has the right to the city, to housing, to public space?

NO ROOM | NEMA MJESTA
Jelena Oroz, 2024, HR, 6 minutes
In this film, cars have legs. Maybe that is why they feel free to use the pavement as they please. There is no room, but could we perhaps be a little more considerate?

CAMPING
Sacha Kai Michaud, Alyssa Ashmore, Nicole Calfchild, 2023, CA, 7 minutes CAMPING follows the story of Shawna, a young woman living in an urban encampment as she attempts to find housing. This was a community project, written by people with the lived experience of being unhoused.

GERTIE HOOPER VS. THE COMMITTEE
Melissa Herman, 2024, UK, 9 minutes
The film tells the story of Gertie Hooper, a Welsh-speaking shepherd from the remote Preseli Mountains in West Wales. During World War II, the local War Agricultural Committee evicted Gertie from the land her family had farmed for decades. This is the story of her resistance.

DEPARTING
Mary Martins, 2024, GB, 7 minutes
Interweaving music, poetry and interviews with analogue techniques and 2D hand-drawn animation, DEPARTING examines the impact of immigration laws, deportation and displacement on communities in the UK amid global political and economic tensions.
STRAIGHT AND IN A CIRCLE
Palina Ramashka, Laurynas Kamarauskas, 2024, LT, 4 minutes
Based on the experience of forced migration, this animation uses simple shapes and symbols to express feelings of isolation, disconnection, safety and belonging.

KISSING DAY | День поцелуев (DEN' POCELEUV)
Ligebita Libera, 2024, CL, RS, and TR, 8 minutes KISSING DAY is a short animated film based on an interview with Russian journalist and LGBTQ activist Elena Kostyuchenko. It recounts the 2012 "Kissing Day" protest she organized outside the State Duma during debates on the anti-"gay propaganda" law, which passed in 2013.

US, THE SEA AND THE SAD END
Malgorzata Rybak, 2023, PL, 2 minutes
When you finally arrive at your favorite snorkeling spot but then suddenly everything is getting out of control. What is going to happen when the temperature of the seas and oceans rises? A very short story in three acts.

PERCEBES
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, 2024, FR and PT, 11 minutes
Set in the Algarve, PERCEBES follows the life cycle of the resilient goose barnacle, from its formation to its place on the dinner plate. Weaving together the voices of locals, offering insights into their daily lives and working realities, a story about the region's customs, its complex relationship to tourism and the pressures of modernity unf...

THE CAR THAT CAME BACK FROM THE SEA
Jadwiga Kowalska, 2023, CH, 11 minutes
In 1981, six friends drove to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car - full of exuberance and frivolousness. As they get further, their car and their country increasingly fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on.