Lost in Bosnia

Memories of the life and visions of the Balkan prophet Baba Vanga, who was predicted the future of human kind and the world up to its end in the year 5079. Baba Vanga, as an older woman, tells how she lost her sight but "began to see". Following an accident, ghosts of dead people came to her to reveal what would happen to the world. Some of her predictions actually happened, some didn't, and for many predictions time will show.

A girl with a disability, or rather a super power that makes her dangerous to herself and others, is left by her biological mother and soon adopted by the vicious queen of a society that exploits females and violates their reproductive rights.

Partly paralysed by polio, Vlado is stuck in his flat and unable to take care of himself. His younger wife, Alma, helps Vlado with love and tenderness in all his daily life activities, never giving up hope that he will get better. But Vlado feels weak and humiliated, losing the motivation to exercise or take medicine. In spite of the love and intimacy between the couple, Vlado’s self-loathing causes him to reject Alma. Haunted by visions of a half-man/half-horse, Alma considers alternative ways to solve their situation. The Centaur appears in a dream and gets closer and closer to their reality, pushing events towards an extreme conclusion. Vlado decides to end his misery, to bury the dead part of his body and wait for a miracle. Alma’s love is challenged but she executes the simple ceremony with dedication. By dawn, the magic happens.

An impressionistic emotional struggle between a girl with a prefabricated heart and a mysterious puppet-master. Inspired by the chapter "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart" from the surrealist film "Dreams That Money Can Buy" (1947) by avant-gardist and dada artist Hans Richter.

Two girls' metaphorical journey through stages of womanhood. The metaphor being a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house

Limits of hospitality and friendship tested by a guest.

Moments in the life of a young Japanese filmmaker in Bosnia, charged with acoustic and visual poetry. Buoyant and essayistic entries in a process of self- and world-reassurance.

Miners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of lanterns. The director, who studies film in a graduate program under Tarr Béla, follows the miners with her undivided attention.

Cenotes—sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness.

A cowherd, sheep, and the wind, all have an equal presence in the village. Death and life are one and indivisible.

A moving image work from director Kaori Oda.

Karaoke Cafe BOSA is located in the suburbs of Osaka. It’s a place where elderly neighbors gather to chat and sing. The film captures BOSA in these days of unrest as a time capsule of the Anthropocene.

Old 8mm family film and images of fireworks combined together.

A moving image work from Kaori Oda, inspired by the film "Desperate Man Blues".

When Kacchi came back home for summer break from abroad, she came out to her family as a homosexual. Her mother and father couldn't take it and answered in negative. Though Kacchi had a depression for their reactions, she decided to face her family again throughout a filmmaking about the 'coming-out'.

A short film about the "hand" that connect our world and the other side, under the background of "Matsuage" in Kyoto.

Quite and mysterious, Xin Seha is an emerging indie musician in South Korea. While his band gradually gets attention from the public, Xin goes through an ordeal: his mother is sick. Xin, however, bravely looks at his pain and expresses his feeling through his voice. 12 HAGO 24 portrays Xin Seha and his surrounding people, and shows how they grow together as artists and human beings. (DocLisboa)

A desperate videophile of the future roams an abandoned city in search of off-line VHS footage with which to soothe her prosthetic eyes.

A time-traveller crash-lands in a virtual reality heritage theme park in 22nd-century France.

The first reconstructed episode of UNIVERSAL EAR, a lost adventure serial of the future, charting Harley Byrne’s ongoing mission: to capture and make available for download “all the world’s music, ever.” Heroic ex-postman Harley Byrne travels back in time to 19th century Romania to record the world’s first ever remotely delivered electronic music. But while recovering from a dramatic splash-landing, he finds himself falling in love with the sultry inventor Nola Luna. Is she really all she seems?

Orphan episode of a lost detective series. A rookie detective is teamed up with a seasoned murder cop, whose break-down results in the disintegration of the show.

Hana is an ASMR artist, creating intimate videos for millions of online followers – she hasn’t left her house for 18 months. Ed is a remote security image analyst, and Hana’s first online hook-up...

A home-made Super-8 musical. Over an all-day drinking session the dreams of a troubled romantic and his companions are worn away by ennui and isolation.

A ball spins around, stuck in the river that goes through the Grbavica neighborhood in Sarajevo.

Manel has been kissed by all the old women in the village. From the passion of Christ to the olive trees in the Catalan countryside, a landscape of resistance that evokes a sour humour, and at the same time a silence from times gone by.

A child who ceases to be a child, a mother who goes away forever and a father who never stops possessing her, beyond life itself. THE HEN is a desire that persists in time, it is a devastating habit that degenerates to the point of turning into death. “The script, rather than being a rigorous adaptation, takes the story 'La Gallina' by Mercè Rodoreda as a sensorial reference, as a mood which one can hold onto. The film is an immersion to the symbolism of the story, it’s an adaptation that although it retains the main actions of the story, it’s especially interested in the high capacity of suggestion of the language. It's about creating a poetic universe itself, with its own visual language, at the border between dreaming and being awake and which could be able to frame a tragedy that often goes beyond reality.” Manel Raga

Razak faces two problems after answering a call. He faces the sudden need to prepare for his mother’s departure rituals and musters the courage to explain to his younger brother who is intellectually disabled. Beyond Razak’s expectation, Rashid, his younger brother takes it well and tries to imitate his brother’s action to mentally jot down the procedures that lead to the ritual. In the end, could Rashid answers Razak’s question - What will happen if one day Razak dies?

A young British man living with his girlfriend in Bosnia Herzegovina desperately attempts to raise 500 marks to prevent himself from being deported.

A filmmaker shares his journey of self-discovery while living abroad, far from his family.

A music video in a short movie form performed by Selena Gomez and Rauw Alejandro.

A horrific cycling incident leaves a young man, R., with damaged nerves in half of his body. Without much sensation, he can't feel himself. Watching a soothing video on YouTube gives him some pleasure at least. The video is ASMR: it features a guy who whispers and rubs his hands together to make soft noises that pleasures the viewer. When R. returns home from the hospital he is drawn more and more to the video guy who suddenly begins to talk directly to R. This bizarre exchange leads R. to a special video featuring the guy instructing R. to sniff poppers and watch porn clips. The experience is an epiphany for R.: a feeling of connection, primarily to himself.

It might just be the full moon, but a BOY is sad because he does not understand other boys, and their desires. Both lust for him but one feels no CHEMISTRY and the other likes his LEGS but does not want to meet. Confused he shaves his head, makes his body the internet, so through him they can ‘online’ date until a new full moon appears… and with it hopefully some clarity. Examining the queer millennial shift into online dating, pop-astrology philosophy and ever present effects of a pandemic that stripped us of touch, this film is a reflection of modern gay romance.

For two weeks I travelled the Balkans, meeting men on homosexual dating applications. We would go for coffee and then somewhere more private. I would ask them to the read the lines of a character from Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. Afterwards I would interview them about what it is like to be a homosexual man in the Balkans. This film is a culmination of that journey and those men.

When communities do not have the public space to meet, converse and grow they must use online platforms connect. However, when these online platforms exist to fulfil sexual desires opposed to civil action, is the community at risk of being reduced to just sex? For two weeks I travelled the Balkans, meeting men on homosexual dating applications. We would go for coffee and then somewhere more private. I would interview them about what it is like to be a homosexual man in the Balkans. This film is a culmination of that journey and those men.