Out of gratitude for the invention of gunpowder, used both to kill and to celebrate, this feverish animation takes you on a personal journey rich with ghostly illustrations.

In 1988, Abdul Ahad Momand became the first Afghan in space. Clicking through old television footage, filmmaker Elham Ehsas connects Momand’s story and his own family history with that of Afghanistan.

In the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake in southern Turkey, Kurdish children turn the ruins into a playground. While the adults recover, the youngest dream of the moon—a place from which their collective pain seems smaller.

The Palestinian filmmaker visits his family home, where a television report shows relief workers in Gaza, where some of his relatives live. He records the almost unimaginable scenes of a devastated society and the survival of its people.