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Back and Forth Across the Line
This programme of films interrogates a myriad of borders. Some are physical, geo-politically determined, others are socially inscribed. Many more are difficult to define. All are porous, even when it seems they’re not.
Screening dates and booking
Credits
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Total running time
79min
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Programmed by
Hyun Jin Cho, Qila Gill, Erik Martinson
Border as Interface
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Director-screenwriter
Petra Szemán
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UK-Japan 2024. 18min
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Language
English
With English subtitles
An animated avatar reflects on existence in-between various boundaries, while traversing a hybrid reality where floating frames of streaming images populate the sky.
Nsala
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Director-screenwriter
Mickael-sltan Mbanza
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Congo 2025. 10min
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Language
Dialogue-free
Through colonial-era archival footage, images are extracted alongside minerals and labour. Re-enactments extrapolate lives lived – agency for the depicted.
The Conjured Ones
Los Conjurados
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Director-screenwriter
Humberto González Bustillo
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Venezuela-Argentina 2025. 9min
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Languages
English, Spanish
With English subtitles
Dragging and dropping into Google Maps locations, an anonymous presence incessantly searches, intersecting hollowed out images of restless migrants in procession.
Terror Element
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Directors
Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich
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Screenwriters
Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich, Alex Quicho
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UK-Netherlands 2025. 24min
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Languages
Russian, English
With English subtitles
Forensic science is scrutinised when a fictional investigator questions procedures and motivations in the politicised 1999 bombings of flats in Russia.
happiness
Watch for free on BFI Player until 26 October
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Director
Firat Yücel
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Screenwriters
Fırat Yücel, Aylin Kuryel
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Netherlands-Turkey 2025. 18min
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Languages
English, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic, Serbian
With English subtitles
From solidarity protests for Palestine to sleepless nights wrestling with the horrific realities – a rabbit-hole inquiry into alleviating insomnia.
How to book
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