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GHOST

Director: Stephanie Quilliams

Country: Canada

Year: 2025

Duration: 3m

Instagram: saltcakeproductions

Though I often use humour to soften my message, most recently I have been exploring how people cope with loss in my piece Ghost. It’s a response to losing my sister to suicide several years ago. I dealt with it in a way that was harmful to myself, and hurt those close to me. I animated my sister’s ashes in certain sequences of Ghost in an effort to be close to her as I worked through the fact I could never be with her again. I hope my work helps people understand they are not alone, and that “shining a light” on the pain can help lessen it.


We Can Still Hear You

Director: Marie Trestrail

Country: Scotland

Year: 2025

Duration: 14m

Instagram: exxtratrestrail

We Can Still Hear You follows the filmmaker on a journey to manifest the internal and generational worlds of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Set around an excavation of home archive material and a present-day trip with her half-sister to the county of their paternal lineage, the film exhibits the visual and sonic realms of the filmmaker. Experimentation and abstraction coincide with personal voiceover to interrogate the past, research its implication on the present, and further questions what future can lay ahead. Do we have the power to change our genetic destiny? And if we do, how can we?


Bob’s Funeral

Director: Jack Dunphy

Country: USA

Year: 2024

Duration: 18m

Instagram: jackfreemandunphy

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director sneaks a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.


Asamblaj cu bunica și bunicul

Director: Alma Buhagiar

Country: Romania

Year: 2025

Duration: 7m

Instagram: almsasdf

The director’s grandparents, who have been together for over 60 years, recall (and re-edit) fragments of their life together. The film, originally conceived as part of a video installation, captures a return to a nonlinear past, while also probing how textures and the materiality of images can be inscribed onto the cinema screen.


The Eggregores’ Theory

Director: Andrea Gatopoulos

Country: Italy

Year: 2024

Duration: 15m

Instagram: andreagatopoulos

He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up… He thinks he forget what it meant. All he knows, for sure, is that he cannot get it out of his head.


Doubts

Director: Fırat Yücel

Country: Turkey, Netherlands

Year: 2025

Duration: 11m

Instagram: firatyucels

Doubts is a ‘desktop thriller’ reflecting the editing process of a documentary on Gezi Resistance. It centers around a hypothetical text exchange between fictional characters who, years later, plan to make a documentary about the Gezi Resistance (Turkey, 2013) using available footage. Set in the present time when filmmakers face imprisonment even for films they didn’t make, the film explores how the government’s “documentaphobia” impacts documentary-makers.


Adieu Ugarit

Director: Samy Benammar

Country: Canada

Year: 2024

Duration: 15m

Instagram: samy_benammar

In 2012, Mohamed had seen his best friend shot dead by an armed militia on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria; the blood spilled in the lake contaminated his memory. Ten years on, the reflections on the Laurentian waters revive Mohamed’s trauma. I ask him if he’d like to dredge up the memories, repair the pain by retreating for a few days to the most distressing calm he can find. He talks about death, immigration and anger. We wonder how and why we should recount this story.