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Here, Elsewhere
ARMENIA: Grasping the timelessness of a place cut off from its rich past, this grieving documentary poem is a farewell to a beloved land that may remain eternally a dream.
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Soap Fever
MEDIA: Memories of an economic crisis, an escapist TV obsession, and timely observations on how cheap entertainment and politics work together, intertwine in this witty, kaleidoscopic collage film of Finland in the 1990s
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Dokufest: Guardians of Democracy in Past Imperfect
DEMOCRACY: In light of the Western political discourse increasingly revealing its own hypocrisy, four DokuFest short films revisit the past, uncovering details that cast new light on the shaken image of today's so-called liberal order.
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My Armenian Phantoms
NOSTALGIA: Private family memories and collective cinematic captions intertwine in this intimate exploration of a dissolving past, which, if not captured in time, can easily disappear in the frenetic pace of our amnesiac digital era.
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Super Paradise
CONSUMERISM: Through apocryphal private archives forging nostalgia and conversations about the past and present, Super Paradise tells the story of a freedom oasis in Greece destroyed by cluelessness and greed, a tale that can be universally applied.
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Pet Farm
ISOLATION: A close-up of a loner and animal lover, Pet Farm portrays a man who struggles to find a place in the world for himself and his passions while facing soulless legislation
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Modern remains
TOURISM: Combining performance, visual effects, newly captured and found footage, this hybrid work offers an exploratory journey through the desolate remnants of an abandoned tourist complex in Türkiye.
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Eastern promises
ELECTIONS: Tricked by cynical populists' fake commitments for their own obscure ends, the elderly residents of an entire village in Georgia are left toothless, figuratively and literally.
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Grief in close-up
WAR: A loving reconstruction of a war hero's human aura as a counterpoint to mere martyrdom and anonymous statistics.