I first meet Carlos Pereira centre frame and at a low angle on my screen. Dressed in a yellow pastel jacket and white T-shirt, his expression is gentle and inviting as he sits in a nook of his Berlin apartment. I just about make out an Ingmar Bergman film poster on the wall next to him. I thank him for his patience and apologise for the technical gremlins that crash every virtual meeting. Pereira later jokingly says, "How can I do slow cinema and not be patient?"

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By rearranging found footage material recorded through thermal cameras placed in Las Vegas, Stefan Kruse Jørgensen’s A Lack of Clarity stimulates a reflection regarding digital surveillance technologies’ progress, expansion, and implications. In its nature, this experimental, essayistic, documentary work reframes recorded (or even stolen) images of us to unveil how controlling mechanisms have become so embedded into contemporary society while remaining almost invisible. 

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What does the modern world look like on film and what are the aesthetic qualities that define it? This question may take years, if not decades to unpack in retrospect, but the films of Vytautas Katkus, who, at only 30 years old, is presumably on the pulse of what’s cool, seem to potentially hold an answer, combining recent trends with fresh outside influences.

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Mo Harawe does not remember a singular moment when it occurred to him that storytelling would be his mission. The Somalian filmmaker, who will have his debut feature The Village Next to Paradise showing in the Un Certain Regard section at the forthcoming 77th Cannes Film Festival, describes his journey towards cinema as more of a curiosity: a need to tell stories that gradually emerged from observing the world around him.

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Five New York adolescents make their vision of a safer world for LGBTQIA+ youth come alive via their online avatars. The GenZ’ers present their queer Utopia as a manifesto, pro-actively crafting their way into a better world. The director-writer duo Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson shed light on Asher, Chase, Mars, Jay, and Raphael: queer teens who love discussing and insist on more inclusive communities for their generation.

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Filmmaker Richard Misek takes on the world’s largest commercial image archive in A History Of The World According To Getty Images, probing the legal, economic, and ethical implications of granting a private corporation such power over our shared cultural memory. 

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