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Turris Babel revisits one of the oldest parables of time, offering a Brueghelian survey of the monumental edifice that is human civilisation (albeit from a Eurocentric perspective), where the seams of different times and cultures pile up like rock sediment in each layer of the great tower.

A classic in sci-fi horror, Laokoon tells the story of a group of cosmonauts who arrive on a foreboding planet: however, they are not here on their own.

Freed from a clothing line by a travelling paper plane, the titular blue apron roams a surreal and abstract world full of hidden joys and dangers.

The story of the folk hero Springman, who persistently dupes, antagonises and evades various Gestapo and SS guards with a simple contraption: couch springs.

A claymation figure confined to a single, empty room, gradually reconstructs itself from dismembered clay body parts in a bizarre attempt to find corporeal coherence.

Set in 1918, two years after the Central Asian ‘Urkun’ anticolonial revolts, Kyrgyz western White Mountains tells the story of an exiled teenager Mukash on the run from Tsarist soldiers and local warlords.

In Lord of the Flies, we spend time in the company of an older man who declares a war on flies infesting his small farm. Accompanied by his endless slew of pets (chickens, rabbits, dogs, and a hawk), he invents a ‘flytrone’, a contraption he also believes to be capable of solving world famine.

Champion Number One focuses on a loquacious conman who nearly wins a trial after representing himself in court, starts the first Qazaq prison-based gym equipment manufacturer, and becomes the last Soviet arm wrestling champion upon his release.

A documentary musical telling the story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the end of 20th century to the beginning of 2022, when the city was erased and captured by Russia.

A filmmaker and her mother piece together an intimate reflection on life within the patriarchal reality of (post-)Soviet Uzbekistan.

Whose Voice Is This? traces the evolution of sound, speech, and music in Central Asian cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Dream and reality blur into a surreal and darkly playful spiral after two sisters set out on a motorcycle adventure.

A short film from a Dutch/Serbian filmmaker, Three Women Named Svetlana offers a look at contemporary Serbia through the eyes of three women as we watch them wait for a train.

In this fun yet heartfelt short, a young boy who the adults often deem ‘too much’ discovers the joy of music.