FIFDH: Argentina – Fifty Years After the Dictatorship

Black Water follows Lokhi and her family as they flee a ravaged southern Bangladesh toward Dhaka. Framed with the pulsing rhythm of a thriller, the film moves from intimate domestic tension to the apocalyptic collapse of cities, observing exile, displacement and the human cost of climate change. Its cinematography favors textured close-ups and wide, drowning panoramas that trade familiarity for menace, creating a tense, elegiac atmosphere. The film’s strength lies in its restrained empathy and searing portrait of a world at the brink of submersion.

In Bengali orignal version with French subtitles.

Screening followed by a discussion with the protagonist and activist Shakila Islam.

Shaped by Soraya’s mobile-phone recordings, this intimate documentary follows a sixteen-year-old Afghan artist over five years as she attempts to flee Iran to join her mother in Austria. Blending handheld video, animation, drawings and sculpture, the film maps a journey of escape, song and improvised dance. It examines courage, gendered violence and the creative impulse as survival, rendered in raw textures and lyrical fragments. The result is a porous, sensory portrait of resistance and artistic self-creation.

In Persian/Dari/Turkish (original version), with French subtitles.

Screening followed by a discussion with filmmakers Mehrdad Oskouei & Soraya Akhlaghi.