Lise’s life

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| France

| 00:52:24

Saturday 22 June 5:40 PM

When she was 18 months old, Lise’s parents learned that she had a tumor on her optic nerve which made her visually impaired. At 12 years old, before completely losing her sight, she found a solution that would change her life.

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Programme

Traveling Light

Follow the tightly-knit community on their symbolic journey into the woods. They carry only the experiences, memories, and dreams that matter to them. Traveling Light, a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, reveals the language of movement as a...

Tiger (72000 BC – 2059 AC)

As generations pass, the ever-growing burden of climate change is passed to the young generations, until it finally bursts. A young girl innocently asks about an animal from the past, a "tiger", and is met with the existential truth of her existence. This generational...

Rising Tides, Raising Voices

The Pacific region is among the most impacted in the world by climate change. Among its low-lying islands, there is no escape from rising coastal waters and extreme weather events. Freshwater exists in precarious balance with the encroaching sea. As part of a legacy...

Twerk for Yemen

A committed documentary filmmaker follows in the footsteps of the Swedish cult classic I am Curious Yellow and asks people in Stockholm what to do about the war in Yemen. The reactions she encounters and the answers she receives are at the same time deeply distressing...

Pripyat Horse

"A sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing." Bede A moment for mourning, for a friend, for the earth.

Drowning

Drowning is a solo project and personal reflection on parenting in poverty.