Program

Armenia, before peace, yet after war. A soldier takes a girl on a road trip to conceal her father’s death. Christine Haroutounian’s transfixing debut, opened the Berlinale Forum and is MIRAGE Film of the Year!

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Oct 8

20:30

Vega 1

Intro

An Incomplete Calendar

Sanaz Sohrabi

A 1980 record of a Venezuelan choir singing in Farsi, Arabic and Yoruba opens a vivid archival history of oil and Global South solidarity. Through fragments the film makes political history feel newly alive.

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Oct 10

17:45

Vega 2

A Sweetness from Nowhere

Ester Bergsmark

After a transphobic shout leaves an artist frozen in fear, a search for a way back to life unfolds in a playful, visually explosive hybrid of documentary essay, poetic facts and evocative fable.

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Oct 11

19:15

Vega 2

At Night

Beatrice Gibson

Six women roam neon-lit Paris, sharing dreams, desires and fears in a shapeshifting 16mm feminist odyssey, winner of Locarno’s Best Emerging Director Award.

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Oct 8

18:15

Vega 3

Q&A with cinematographer Ben Rivers

Oct 10

20:15

Vega 1

Q&A with cinematographer Ben Rivers

Beatrice Gibson Shorts

Beatrice Gibson

In these two closely connected films, British artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson turns to poets, friends and family to ask how we might live, love and care for one another amid political instability.

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Oct 10

22:00

Vega 2

Ben Rivers Shorts - Poetry Films

Ben Rivers

Meet legendary British filmmaker Ben Rivers expanding on a selection of poetry-films. Shot primarily on 16mm, poems become images and images begin to speak.

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Oct 10

17:45

Vega 3

Talk by director Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers Shorts - Weirdly Longing

In three tactile 16mm films, Ben Rivers travels to remote worlds where landscapes erode, solitude becomes freedom and lives beyond society reveal other ways of being.

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Oct 9

22:00

Vega 1

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Kahlil Joseph

A journalist’s voyage opens into a cinematic album, weaving fiction, history, archives, art and family memory into an expansive vision of Black life across time and continents.

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Oct 8

20:45

Vega 3

Intro

Oct 11

21:00

Vega 1

Centar

Ivan Marković

Inside Belgrade’s near-abandoned Sava Centar, maintenance workers preserve a fading vision of Yugoslavia’s future in Ivan Marković’s hypnotic study of architecture, labour and time.

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Vega Foyer

Christine Haroutounian & Lê Bảo Shorts

Across Vietnam and Armenia, three early films by auteurs Lê Bảo and Christine Haroutounian. Audiovisual studies of human connection, family and loss.

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Oct 9

22:00

Vega 3

Dandelion's Odyssey

Momoko Seto

A nuclear blast ends life on Earth, but four dandelion seeds drift into the cosmos, carrying a fragile hope of survival across the stars.

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Oct 11

13:15

Vega 1

Doggerland

Kim Ekberg

Nearly 40 and still living with his mother, Alf dreams of touring Europe with his diabolo act. Shot on 16mm and starring a real-life mother and son, this tender Swedish oddity turns drifting into resistance.

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Oct 9

17:30

Vega 2

Q&A with director Kim Ekberg

Hair, Paper, Water...

Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý

Born in a cave more than sixty years ago, Cao Thị Hậu passes the endangered Rục language to her grandchildren. The Locarno Golden Leopard winner is a luminous 16mm film about memory, home and inheritance.

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Oct 9

21:45

Vega 2

Oct 10

13:00

Vega 2

Q&A with line producer Xuan Trang

Hearing

Lê Bảo

A sound technician can measure every decibel but not the silence growing inside his own family. In Lê Bảo’s family drama, sound becomes physical, turning memory and longing into something almost visible.

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Oct 11

15:00

Vega 1

Q&A with director Lê Bảo

Hen

György Pálfi

A hen escapes an industrial farm and fights to build a family at a Greek restaurant while a human tragedy unfolds around her. Pálfi’s extraordinary animal odyssey is funny, tender and increasingly dark.

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Oct 10

13:15

Vega 1

In Defense of Self

Linn Helene Løken

Following a stay at a psychiatric clinic, Morten calls emergency services. Police arrive, and thirteen minutes later he is shot and killed. His audio recorder captures the final minutes of his life.

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Oct 10

17:45

Vega 1

Premiere + Q&A with director Linn Helene Løken

Oct 11

20:15

Vega 3

Q&A with director Linn Helene Løken

International Shorts - Matter and Memory

Toronto, MoMa, Hot-Docs, Berlinale curator and programmer Jesse Cumming puts together two international short-film programs for MIRAGE 2026.

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Oct 10

15:30

Vega 3

Intro by curator Jesse Cumming

International Shorts - Playback

Toronto, MoMa, Hot-Docs, Berlinale curator and programmer Jesse Cumming puts together two international short-film programs for MIRAGE 2026.

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Oct 11

16:15

Vega Salongen

Intro by curator Jesse Cumming

Invisible Adversaries

Valie Export

Convinced that alien forces are invading human bodies, an artist begins to see violence and estrangement everywhere. A science-fiction that transforms urban alienation into a thrilling assault on perception.

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Oct 8

20:00

Cinemateket - Tancred

Intro by Mike Sperlinger

John Skoog - Short Films

John Skoog

Four films by Swedish auteur John Skoog move through rural Sweden, a German ritual and Hollywood’s borrowed landscapes, revealing a haunting world of memory, isolation and hidden histories.

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Oct 11

13:00

Vega 2

Q&A ith director John Skoog

Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman

Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers, Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, Mawena Yehouessi, Rob Jacobs

Across four charged chapters, cinema, dance and sound meet the uncompromising legacy of Julius Eastman, a visionary composer whose music refused every attempt to contain it.

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Kontinental ’25

Radu Jude

Radu Jude turns one woman’s crisis of conscience into a sharp, darkly funny portrait of guilt, complicity and the absurdities of modern Romania.

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Oct 11

21:15

Vega 2

Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio’s wordless classic merges image, editing and iconic score in a hypnotic and unsettling reflection on the modern world. Regularly named one of the greatest documentaries ever made.

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Oct 9

18:00

Cinemateket - Tancred

Video Q&A with director Godfrey Reggio

Krakatoa

Carlos Casas

A fisherman survives the volcano Krakatoa’s eruption and descends towards the heart of the earth in a wordless, hallucinatory odyssey driven by Oscar-winner Nicolas Becker’s seismic sound design.

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Oct 8

20:15

Vega 2

Q&A with director Carlos Casas

Oct 11

20:30

Vega Salongen

Mikrofilm 30th Anniversary

Join our celebration of the animation studio Mikrofilm and their miraculous 30 years of survival – with a fantastic lineup of short films, talks and after-party.

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Oct 8

17:45

Vega 1

Intro + Talk

Mountain of Gold

Roland Edzard

Rumours of a new gold vein draw Moussa and his friends deep into the Sahara.Visually breathtaking and charged with suspense, Mountain of Gold follows the pursuit of fortune and a new life.

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Oct 10

15:30

Vega 2

Q&A with director Roland Edzard

My Semba

Hugo Salvaterra

In Luanda, a young poet turns precarious work and restless dreams into rap. A vibrant city symphony where music becomes resistance celebrating a generation that may be marginalised, but is never defeated.

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Oct 10

20:00

Vega 2

Mystery Screening

Step into the unknown with MIRAGE Mystery Screening. The title remains secret until the lights go down. Expect something immersive, challenging and/or surprising.

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Oct 8

20:30

Vega Salongen

Oct 9

20:30

Vega Salongen

Oct 10

21:45

Vega Salongen

Naqoyqatsi

Godfrey Reggio

A war fought entirely in images: archival footage, surveillance feeds and CGI, remixed until history looks manufactured. Naqoyqatsi shows us a world no longer merely transformed by technology, but absorbed int

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Oct 11

20:15

Cinemateket - Tancred

Video Q&A with director Godfrey Reggio

Norwegian Short – 1

A selection of Norwegian short films: Interlude - by Aasne Vaa Greibrokk | Nothing, Arizona - by Daniel Paida Larsen | Conversations On a Boat - by Sabina Jacobsson

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Oct 10

13:00

Vega 3

Q&A

Norwegian Short – 2

A selection of Norwegian short films: Black Box - by Anton Dyakov | Time of Plenty - by Robin Jensen

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Oct 11

13:45

Vega 3

Talk with director Robin Jensen

Norwegian Short – 3

A selection of Norwegian short films: Sandy Fannies - by Ingrid Runde Saxegaard | Payé - by Mirko Stopar | Animalia - by Marius Rolfsvåg

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Oct 8

18:00

Vega 2

Q&A

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

William Greaves, David Greaves

More than fifty years in the making, William and David Greaves’ remarkable film turns a historic gathering in 1972 of artists and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance reunite into living, breathing cinema.

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Oct 9

20:00

Vega 1

Paikar

Dawood Hilmandi

A son returns to the father he fled;not to forgive or condemn, but to ask why. IDFA’s Best First Feature winner, Paikar is a raw, tender journey through war, exile and inherited silence.

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Oct 9

19:45

Vega 2

Powaqqatsi

Godfrey Reggio

In the second Qatsi film trilogy, human labour, ritual and movement become a vast cinematic symphony about beauty, survival and the hidden cost of progress.

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Oct 10

18:00

Cinemateket - Tancred

Video Q&A with director Godfrey Reggio

Redoubt

John Skoog

Denis Lavant gives an astonishing physical performance as a farm worker building a fortress for his village, in John Skoog’s tactile black-and-white transformation of a true story into modern myth.

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Oct 10

15:15

Vega 1

Q&A with director John Skoog

Revolutionaries Never Die

Mohanad Yaqubi

From 115 reels of revolution, war and everyday life, Mohanad Yaqubi summons Jocelyne Saab’s radical gaze, transforming her archive into an urgent, deeply personal act of resistance and cinematic resurrection.

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Oct 11

18:15

Vega 3

Ridge

John Skoog

John Skoog blends documentary observation with dreamlike tableaux. A picture-perfect Swedish summer slowly slips into something stranger, suspended between beauty and unease, daily life and dream.

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Oct 11

16:00

Vega 3

Q&A with director John Skoog

Rose of Nevada

Mark Jenkin

A time-travel mystery. In a Cornish fishing village, two men board a boat that vanished thirty years earlier. When they return, past and present begin to blur in a haunting tale of labour, loss and belonging.

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Oct 10

20:15

Vega 3

Shifting Baselines

Julien Elie

With the beauty of 1950s science fiction we see SpaceX rockets rise above a disappearing coastal community. Through black-and-white images it turns the new Space Race into an unsettling vision of progress.

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Oct 11

17:00

Vega 2

Sound of Air

Per Maning

Quiet, spontaneous and deeply sensory, Sound of Air asks us to slow down and discover how an image can be heard, a sound can reshape what we see, and art can emerge from the space between.

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Oct 11

18:15

Vega 1

Talk & Live Performance

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

William Greaves

William Greaves turns a chaotic film shoot into a playful, radical inquiry into cinema. What appears to be a film production in crisis gradually reveals itself as one of cinema’s boldest experiments.

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Oct 8

18:30

Cinemateket - Lillebil

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

A gripping reconstruction of Algeria’s struggle for independence from French colonial rule. This Golden Lion winner was banned in France for five years, and studied by the Pentagon decades later.

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Oct 10

20:15

Cinemateket - Tancred

The Calf Doll

Ankur Hooda

After his cow delivers a stillborn calf, a retired professor attempts a forbidden ritual to make her give milk again, a haunting fable of grief, survival and a rural world disappearing into Haryana’s smog.

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Oct 11

14:00

Vega Salongen

The Night is Fading Away

Ramiro Sonzini, Ezequiel Salinas

A projectionist secretly moves into a fading cinema, where an unlikely nocturnal community turns the empty theatre into a home. Warm,melancholic and quietly funny love story of cinema as a space.

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Oct 9

19:45

Vega 3

Oct 11

18:00

Cinemateket - Tancred

The Sealed Soil

Marva Nabili

A young Iranian woman’s refusal to marry becomes a quiet, radical act of resistance against a world determined to control her life. A powerful and strikingly modern portrait of female autonomy.

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Oct 9

20:15

Cinemateket - Tancred

Intro

Trains

Maciej J. Drygas

From joyful departures to soldiers bound for war, a century of railway journeys becomes a haunting, wordless portrait of Europe where progress and destruction travel on the same tracks.

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Oct 11

18:30

Vega Salongen

Trillion

Victor Kossakovsky

In Trillion, a woman walks barefoot across a moonlike landscape, carrying heavy bags towards the sea. Her repeated journey becomes a powerful reckoning with how we treat the living world and our oceans.

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Oct 9

17:45

Vega 1

Premiere + Talk + Q&A with director Victor Kossakovsky

Oct 11

15:00

Vega 2

TwentySix Presents (⏯) Itself

Deborah Stratman, Laslo Chenchanna, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Vienna-based curatorial collective Twentysix visits MIRAGE presenting films by Laslo Chenchanna, Deborah Stratman and Apichatpong Weerasethakul to examine the experience of watching films itself.

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Oct 9

17:30

Vega 3

Talk

USETT

USETT gives short films, that might otherwise sit unseen on a hard drive a chance to be shown, new life through casual screenings and conversations with filmmakers at different bars in Oslo.

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Oct 6

18:00

Gehør

Art

Findig Frida - by Hilde K. Kjøs

VR installation

Nasjonalgalleriet + Vega Scene

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FRAKT - As Long as There is Light

Ying Ang + Charlie Hay + Katja Høst + C.S. Nicholson

FRAKT- Sukkerbiten Oslo

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Oct 7

17:00

Sukkerbiten – Open Saturday + Sunday (12-16)

Screen Memoir

Gianmarco Donaggio

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Shine On You Crazy

Marianne Stranger

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Tarzan

Thomas Østbye, Janne Hoem

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Experiences

FACADE

Vega Scene

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A poetic and visual hybrid work moving between film, performance, and installation, portraying three women, in three rooms, facing three similar conflicts

Services

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Oct 2

19:00

Screening-Performance + Food + Talk

FACADE

Tøyen - Kvinnehelsehuset

Oct 10

17:00

Screening-Performance

FACADE

Vega - Foyer

Oct 10

18:30

Screening-Performance

FACADE

Vega - Foyer

Listening Sessions

Salongen

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MIRAGE invites you to listening sessions without distractions, with full concentration on the music alone.

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Oct 8

18:30

Listening Sessions

Salongen

Oct 9

17:30

Listening Sessions

Salongen

Listening Sessions

MIRAGE - AfterWork

Vega Scene

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Film Industry, film students, film nerds, film lunatics and everyone interested in the magic of Cinema! Join for the MIRAGE AfterWork at Vega for light food, snack and drinks.

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Oct 8

16:45

MIRAGE - AfterWork

Vega Scene

Oct 9

17:15

MIRAGE - AfterWork

Vega Scene

MIRAGE - AfterWork

Vega Scene

MIRAGE Opening Night

The Old National Gallery

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We are delighted to reopen Oslo’s former National Gallery for the grand opening of MIRAGE 2026. Join us in its historic halls for an analogue audiovisual celebration of the art of cinema.

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Oct 7

18:00

Opening Night

MIRAGE Opening Night

National Gallery

MIRAGE Opening Night

Nils Petter Molvær - Talk + Concert

Vega 1

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Join for a unique opportunity to experience an intimate musical performance by Nils Petter Molvær, and an artist talk together with director Per Maning following the screening of Sound of Air.

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Oct 11

18:15

Nils Petter Molvær - Talk + Concert

Vega 1

Nils Petter Molvær - Talk + Concert

Talks

1) Jack Film Agency Streaming platform release!

Talk + party

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Oct 10

19:30

Vega Salongen

1) Jack Film Agency Streaming platform release!

FREE ENTRY

1) Jack Film Agency Streaming platform release!

Beatrice Gibson

At Night + 2x shorts!

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Beatrice Gibson

Ben Rivers

Poetry Films + Short Film Selection + At Night ++

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Ben Rivers

John Skoog

Redoubt + Ridge + Shorts

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John Skoog

Take Care - Special Focus: Production Design

Julia Jayko Fossland & Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid

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Oct 8

17:00

Vega Salongen

Take Care - Special Focus: Production Design

TALK + FILM SCREENING

Take Care - Special Focus: Production Design

Victor Kossakovsky

Trillion - Ode to the life in the oceans

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Victor Kossakovsky

Festival Routes

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USETT

10/6/2026 18:00

Program

Only On Earth

Fairytale

Shorts | Tøyen Pop-up

Enough

Flophouse America

Dawning

To the West, in Zapata

The Love That Remains

White Snail

Bogancloch

Agatha's Almanac

Paul

The Wolves Always Come at Night

Collective Monologue

Huaquero

Sirens Call

Wishing On A Star

Endless Cookie

Two Years at Sea

Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Shorts | Slow Motions

With Hasan in Gaza

Viktor

The Coriolis Effect

Sermon to the Void

Mare's Nest

Reharmonization

The Visitor

Shorts | A Stranger in the World + Concert

Ice Grave

Fiume o morte!

Inside Amir

Films

After Dreaming

An Incomplete Calendar

A Sweetness from Nowhere

At Night

Beatrice Gibson Shorts

Ben Rivers Shorts - Poetry Films

Ben Rivers Shorts - Weirdly Longing

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Centar

Christine Haroutounian & Lê Bảo Shorts

Dandelion's Odyssey

Doggerland

Hair, Paper, Water...

Hearing

Hen

In Defense of Self

International Shorts - Matter and Memory

International Shorts - Playback

Invisible Adversaries

John Skoog - Short Films

Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman

Kontinental ’25

Koyaanisqatsi

Krakatoa

Mikrofilm 30th Anniversary

Mountain of Gold

My Semba

Mystery Screening

Naqoyqatsi

Norwegian Short – 1

Norwegian Short – 2

Norwegian Short – 3

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Paikar

Powaqqatsi

Redoubt

Revolutionaries Never Die

Ridge

Rose of Nevada

Shifting Baselines

Sound of Air

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

The Battle of Algiers

The Calf Doll

The Night is Fading Away

The Sealed Soil