In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary „Medzi dolinami, medzi vŕški, po stopách budúceho zvuku Slovenska“ while producing the album "The Future Sound of Slovakia Vol.1" by Mira Tus Manos. But every film leaves scenes out. What doesn't fit due to time, rhythm, or because the main story needs to go elsewhere. "Medzi scénami, medzi hlasmi" is exactly those outtakes: already edited material that no one had seen, divided into two parts —SIDE A and SIDE B— where artists from Argentina, England, France, Catalonia, Amsterdam, New Zealand, and Slovakia speak not only about the project but also about their own artistic practices, personal stories, and internal maps.
In the slums of Jordan, power circulates through fear, favors, and violence. Boomah, a volatile street enforcer, survives on petty extortion and intimidation because for those at the bottom, crime is the only work that pays. Children move through the same streets she controls, selling goods, running messages, learning the rules of danger before adulthood; Boomah frightens them, exploits them, and sometimes protects them, caught between the instincts of a predator and the shadow of her own abandoned childhood. Surrounded by women struggling to shield their families, she carries a fractured relationship to motherhood, shaped by loss and survival rather than care. When a new, more organized criminal force begins to restructure the underground economy, independent lives like hers grow increasingly disposable, and Boomah is pushed to confront what it means to survive in a world where violence is labor, children inherit the streets, and motherhood is both a wound and a responsibility.
Fantastique is a magic-realistic coming-of-age in Guinea-Conakry. We follow the 14-year-old contortionist Fanta, who juggles between care for her ailing mother, school, and what she loves the most: Training with the acrobatic circus Amoukanama, with the hopes of joining their next big tour. Trying to bridge all expectations, Fanta starts to doubt what she really wants, searching for her own voice.
Apropos of Acid Snow is a modern adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story of a modern underground man who is too in his head.
Over the course of a day, from a café to the water’s edge, Hoàng and Hân drift into a detached romance whose reality seems to lie only in the telling, which comes later.
Banned languages, books telling stories of alien children, and strange sculptures that resemble spaceships. The history of the suppression of the Basque language during Franco’s dictatorship opens the door to the invisible.
Curtain Call follows a group of young actors as they navigate the chaos, conflict, and camaraderie of a stage production. As the film reveals, the real drama unfolds long before the curtain rises.
“Suite Dreams” is a three-episode fiction film set in hotel rooms that hold historical, social, and symbolic layers of Brazil. At Hotel Riazor (Rio de Janeiro), the story unfolds on the night of August 24, 1954, facing the windows of Catete Palace — when entering history can mean leaving life behind. Madeira Palace (São Paulo), a well-known downtown hotel associated with chemsex encounters, receives a character immersed in delirium and confinement, confronted with his own duplication. Freely inspired by Campos de Carvalho. At Hotel Glória (Rio de Janeiro), the rise of a new real estate icon unfolds — because even ghosts are forced to update themselves.