Local Sensations
2026 | 25 min | Thailand
Country: Thailand
Original title: โลคอลเซนเซชันส์ Tulapop Saenjaroen
Cinematographer: Parinee Buthrasri
Editor: Tulapop Saenjaroen
Sound: Chalermrat Kaweewattana
Music: Ham Tanid
Producer: Kardpol Nitipisanon
Local Sensations opens a loose dialogue with the essay, "How to Design a Modern Monument That Won’t Become a Shrine". Rather than illustrating the text, the film generates pluralities—unraveling the dichotomy of object and subject—and gestures toward a kind of topological politics.
GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN
2025 | 12 min | South Korea, France, China
Original title: GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN
Countries: South Korea, France, China
Director: Yuyan Wang
Editor: Yuyan Wang
Sound design: Raphaël Hénard
Producer: Yuyan Wang
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
Deep Cobalt
2026 | 31 min | Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States
Original title: Ndjimu
Director: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Screenwriter: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Cinematographer: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Editor: Jobson Madibo
Sound design: Yashaswini Raghunandan
Music: Yashaswini Raghunandan
Producer: Stella Ramazani
In the claustrophobic depths of the Mutoshi mine in Katanga (DRC), Ndjimu follows The Rememberers – a community labouring in unsafe and brutal conditions to extract coveted minerals from the ancestral soils to feed global tech empires, to their own detriment. Set to a soundtrack of metallic rock being crushed, Ndjimu is an invocation and a descent into the earth's memory, beneath the noise of extraction and the myth of progress.
