Silence Heard Loud

Seven individuals read excerpts from essays on various global issues. This is the only time we see them together. From the sun-drenched hall, we move to different parts of the city which provide background for their stor

Le silence entre les notes

Spiral of Silence

In 2018, Taiwan was kept busy by noises of the election, among which the process of restarting the coal-fired power plant in Shen’ao was the most controversial and eye-catching. I followed the diving and canoeing instruc

Ten Minutes of Silence

The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends embodied in the painting "Black Square" by Malevich and J. Cage in music.

There Is No Healing In Silence

There is No Healing in Silence (2020) interrogates how deep self-reflection and intergenerational platonic intimacy can be used as a way of reckoning with the violence of the world. It explores how nature facilitates a s

Silence of the Man

In dystopian near-future, news reporting informs people of a mysterious yet fatal epidemic which is transmitted through conversations. Everyone in the city, including Kar-him, are advised to wear earmuffs and to avoid ta

The Silence of Mark Rothko

An exploration of painter Mark Rothko, best known for imposing canvasses that eschew representation to express fundamental human emotions through pure color.

Breaking the Silence

An Indigenous woman leaves her Emberá Chamí community for Bogotá as she grapples with her experience of female genital mutilation.

The Silence Called My Name

Death, Dictates Silence

Two refugee siblings are separated in different parts of the world. The impossibility to meet in person due the pandemic, forces them to share their grief of their mother’s death in diaspora, through an online call. In t

Hour of Silence

The last film of Juris Podnieks, it is dedicated to the memory of cameramen Andris Slapins and Gvido Zvaigzne, who died tragically during the shooting by OMON forces in the center of Riga in 1991.

Two Steps to Silence

Afghanistan. February 1989. The last days of the stay of Soviet troops in a foreign country. Home soon, but the war is still going on. And many people wonder: who are you - an invader or a liberator?..

Colombie, le silence des armes

The Book of Silence

A film about the value of words in an age of information abundance; about the troubled communication and imbalance between silence, talking and sounds, but also about how human speech shaped and developed and what should

Code of Silence

In September 2016, police shot and killed Hussam Hussein in Berlin; the case has still not been solved. Inspired by this incident, “Code of Silence” sheds light on the esprit de corps, here using the example of a German

The Pyramidical Silence

A description of the decay of mountains in connection to the end of cosmos. Man is described in a geological timescale; they are alien visitors.

The Voice of Silence

A documentary feature film that registers different survival struggles between Mexico City and Oaxaca after two enormous earthquakes tragically shaked the country in 2017, and speaks about how these events exposed corrup

The Noises of Silence

In the midst of the current crisis in Venezuela, Daniel deals with the difficult decision he had to make. Leaving his family, his girlfriend and his life in his country, while confronting the memories and doubts of what

In Silence Everything Roars

Zourab and Natia are living a secret romance, but when the news spreads in the village, the situation becomes uncontrollable.

Requiem for Silence

Majed explores his struggle with an unwanted malicious entity that unexpectedly comes into his life – an unbearable noise that afflicts his hitherto everyday existence - and his ultimate acceptance of their co-existence.