When Gabino’s long-absent father unexpectedly returns home, a familiar family drama begins to unravel and repeat itself, as Nicolás Pereda playfully collapses the boundaries between actors and characters, fiction and lived experience.

The landscape painted by Korean women filmmakers is so vast and complex that it defies easy categorisation. The four selected shorts share a determination to carve out a path of their own while delivering the pleasures of diverse genres and forms.

Two beguiling works from Nicolás Pereda: a languorous Mexico City interior of artists, books and dreams, paired with a playful school documentary that gradually transforms into the strange tale of a boy whose skin has lost its pigment.

October 1985, Santa Ana, California: Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by a tripwire bomb planted in his office in a brazen act of political violence.

January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.