After more than 10 years of absence, Black Soil Film Festival is back, and bigger than ever. Originating in 2003 as Europe’s first hip-hop film festival, it has now expanded its focus to encompass the broader scope of black culture. It’s a celebration of the African diaspora, which is at the heart of the emerging [...]

Africa in the Picture (AITP) was founded by Mariet Bakker as a film festival in 1987 in The Netherlands with the aim to showcase cinema from Africa and its diaspora. I worked as a scout and member of the programming team for Africa in the Picture Festival from 2000 until 2011 (https://www.aitp.nl/aitp-archive/). Mariet Bakker was [...]

“Free UR Head” by director Tung-Yen CHOU (a Very Theatre Taipei production) is a public participatory choreography project that uses custom-developed real-time Immersive (XR) technology. In Free UR Head, physical reality blends with virtual reality in an unprecedented audience experience for dozens of participants simultaneously, while, at the same time, being watched by a 2nd [...]

In Traversing the Mist by Tung-Yen CHOU (a Very Theatre Taipei production), participants embodying a Taiwanese young man venture into a surreal gay sauna, a poetic dreamscape woven with desires and fears. Crossing eyes with the other sauna-goers who all have the same face, you walk along every floor, corridor, and room. Each layer of [...]

Explore a male sauna through poetic lenses, to take a peek into something that’s hidden under the desire—the love without love. In a dim-lighted room filled with mist, blurred figures of men are sipping the desire and loneliness from each other. You seem to have entered a forbidden zone and fallen into a state between [...]

"Black Lives Matter" is a short film about Police brutality faced predominately by the African-American population due to deep-rooted racism. A fictitious Police officer writing uncountable times Black Lives Matter on a chalkboard wall as a form of non-violent penalty.   Concept & Directors: Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko Actor: Joseph T. Shavel Producers: Sasha [...]

Progress vs Regress is a feature documentary film about how today's technological innovations have transformed social relationships, as seen through the eyes of the elderly.  The film investigates how the myth of technical progression affected and continues to affect attitudes towards labor, money, time and emotions. Are some feelings becoming extinct because of our [...]

A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a strawberry pie factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall street stockbroker, the last living WW2 female spy, a painter who paints. Time for 42 years, the first school shooter [...]

A mythopoetic feast of self-discovery that crosses three continents and three generations, E MINHA CARA traces the filmmaker's journey to Salvador Da Bahia, the African heart and soul of Brazil, as he seeks the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams. Paralleling the journey his mother made twenty years before to Tanzania in search [...]