FIFEQ – Broken View + short films [FREE]

Screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Samy Benammar
Free admission – Limited seats

7:30pm – Public welcome
8pm – Screening begins

Kauaʻi ʻōʻō

Stemming from the only remaining sound artifact of a now extinct bird species, filmmaker Samy Benhamar invites us into a poetic dialogue with the last Kaua’i’ōʻō. In a somewhat delirious sensory exploration the camera rushed to transport us in between different territories, as far as the heavens, in search of traces from a being that no longer exists or is doomed to disappear…

Directed by Samy Benammar
2023 / 4min / French, English (s.t. English)
Filmmaker’s country: Canada, Country of filming: Algeria, Canada, France, Country of production: Canada

Featured selection
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2024
Experiments in Cinema and ULTRACinema 2023

Solar Book

Solar Book examines objects from museum collections and archival images, whose main task now is to record the past and survive through time.

Directed by Azar Saiyar
2023 / 9min / no dialogue
Filmmaker’s country: Finland, Country of filming: Finland, Country of production: Finland

Featured selection
Minimalen 2024
International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) 2024

Broken View (North American premiere)

A poetic film-essay on the colonial gaze and the magic lantern. This early type of projector was used in Belgian colonial propaganda, highlighting the good deeds of church, state, and industry at the time. Lantern projections were an effective way of selling the colonial project to a somewhat reluctant Belgian public.

Directed by Hannes Verhoustraete
2023 / 1h12 / english (s.t. English)
Filmmaker’s country: Belgium, Country of filming: Belgium, Country of production: Belgium

Featured selections and awards
États généraux du film documentaire, France 2023
Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival – ARKIPEL, Indonesia (2023)

The Rootless (North American premiere)

A grandfather and granddaughter share a desire to revive the heritage of their culture and language. This effort to cultivate their Karelian heritage is interrupted by the sudden passing of their grandfather.

Directed by August Joensalo
2023 / 12 min / Finnish (s.t. English)
Filmmaker’s country: Finland, Country of filming: Finland, Country of production: Finland

Featured selection
Tampere Film Festival 2024