Buy tickets for Afterlives | BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Credits

Director-screenwriter

Kevin B. Lee
Germany-Belgium-France 2025. 88min
Courtesy of

Pong Film
Language

English

With English subtitles

Introduction

Weaving together ancient relics of the Medusa of Hatra, ISIS propaganda and speculative digital archives, Lee’s film unfolds as a charged meditation on how images shape our realities and persist in our collective memory. Employing desktop documentary filmmaking and a genre-splicing forensic lens, Afterlives guides us through a haunted visual terrain, grappling with the entangled depths of violence, suffering and the ethics of bearing witness.

Hyun Jin Cho

Content warning

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury.

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