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Based on a Sudanese short story by Ahmad Al Malik Tank centres on an inadequate man with a modest life. One day he acquires a tank and things change. His community treat him differently, more deferentially. And so, by increments, the man starts to behave differently too. His entitlement starts to show. As things begin to improve for him he starts to expect more from his life. A dangerous cycle is begun.

Under the shadow of a hill, Slavka navigates a life of slow rituals and care for her mother Miluša, as she waits for the light of a new day to come.

A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.

Bara collects lifelike baby-dolls to fill the void left by her absentee son. When her prized doll vanishes, she is pushed into a surreal search that blurs reality and fantasy.

“Bicycle Face” is a film essay that reflects on the relationship between women and bicycles from a contemporary perspective. Fragments of films, archival images, texts, fictional scenes, and bicycle sounds form this audiovisual collage, which aims to be a tribute to women's freedom, their capacity for struggle, and resistance. The starting point is a historical event that takes us back to the late 19th century when women began riding bicycles. It was then that a made-up disease was diagnosed with the goal of dissuading women from riding bicycles.

This film denounces intensive livestock farming by evoking the imprisonment, sadness and resilience of a cow separated from her calf, in a heavy and poignant atmosphere.