In three acts, each with its own character, this ambitious film examines the world of animals, plants and stones, and questions the place of humans on our planet. It's at times didactic, at times observational, at times theoretical and at times poetic.

Artist couple Lynn Cruz and Miguel Coyula deploy a string of secret audio recordings to expose the various forms of control and intimidation that independent artists in Cuba have to suffer. In true Kafkaesque fashion, oppression looms everywhere.

Innovative and playful, this meta-documentary tells the story of Mahesh, a young Indian plumber who cycled 2,000 kilometers to get home during a lockdown and became a national media hype—albeit very briefly.

With great enthusiasm, Erik van Lieshout roams the Brabant countryside of his youth. Farmers, local people and nature are caught between nitrate pollution and agricultural stench. For the artist, this is fertile ground.

In a Lebanese beauty salon, Bouba injects her clients with Botox and fillers. The close-ups of the tortured and bleeding faces are gruesome and intriguing. Customers vent their worries as they paralyze their expressions. Meanwhile, war is at the door.

Laurent Pantaléon dives into the world of garanti talismans to ensure that his film is successful. On the island of Réunion these objects have an important role to play as a protective mechanism, an insurance policy and an identity symbol.

In a haunting, autobiographical essay, Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari questions what it means to be an artist, as censorship drains the color from his home city of Tehran, and from his life.

Calmly insightful 16mm film exploring the trade in Peruvian and Ecuadorian prehispanic objects. The storytelling navigates the boundary between reality and fiction to reveal the gaping holes torn in indigenous culture.

Corruption plagues Pedro’s work as an insurance claims adjuster in Mexico. Hoping to forget his worries, he accepts a role in a theater play with a seductive actress. But that makes things even more complicated. It’s the start of a complex quest.

Associative, music-driven video collage that captures the soul of Brazil in words and visuals, revealing that colonial thinking is still deeply rooted in everyday life.

Two Indonesians in Taiwan sit in a park in the evening and talk about their day. They write poems and start a radio station for Indonesian migrant workers, in a gentle, sensitive film that shows the process of its own making.

Using film as her impetus, Eleonora Camizzi asks her father with schizophrenia the questions she never wanted or dared to ask before. What begins as an interrogation about the past becomes a meaningful conversation in the present.