Activated by political urgency and defiance, these five works envision a collective reimagining and remaking of the world. Each crafts a counter-grammar to traditional non-fiction cinema – grounded in poetry, fragmentation, inquiry and the voice.

Daria's Night Flowers, dir. Maryam Tafakory, Iran-UK-France 2025, 16 min.
Drawing on an archive of Persian-language films, this dreamlike collage unfolds a surreal, fragmented narrative of desire and resistance, defying censorship and ideological conformity.

New Terriotories (spectacle as king), dir. Rhea Storr, UK 2025, 17 min.
Drawing inspiration from Isaac Julien’s 1984 work Territories, this incisive film traverses six carnivals across England, critically examining the politics of image-making and spectatorship.

Tuktuit: Caribou, dir. Lindsay McIntyre, Canada 2025, 15 min.
Filmed in Nunavut and shaped with handmade emulsions, this painterly film conjures the organic grammar of lichen as it explores the legacies of colonialism and environmental rupture.

Another Other, dir. Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson, USA 2025, 9 min.
Centring two Black figures under integration by white state officials, this work reveals the insidious nature of systemic racism through an affecting interplay of image, sound and subtitle.

Morning Circle, dir. Basma al-Sharif, Germany-Canada-UAE 2025, 20 min.
Morgenkreis, a daily kindergarten ritual, becomes a lens on Western hegemony – exposing colonial origins, liberal mythologies, and the state’s choreography of separation and discipline.