We live at historic times when humanity is going through major changes and is facing unpreceded challenges. And while it seems that the planets are still standing, the world is offering us unexpected turns. When logic fails, systems dominate or collapse, and reality becomes fragmented, cinema becomes not only a mirror – but a tool for navigating the chaos. This year’s program of Parallels and Encounters embraces that disorientation. Many of the selected films deliberately lean into the absurd – not for the sake of provocation, but as a necessary language for making sense of the senseless. It is an artistic choice which some authors decided to make.
The stories told by Eastern European authors ask urgent questions and they are raw, poetic and honest, they search for the grounds and signs in the past like in Confidante, and they try to foresee the future incorporating it in our reality like in The Black hole. There is also a place for nostalgia and celebration of the cinema as art like in Lotus.
10 films of Parallels & Encounters are speaking to the fractures in our societies: the violence of war and occupation in Honeymoon, the moral ambiguity in Comatogen, and the corrosion of innocence in Broken Voices, social injustice in Eighty plus. They examine the ways people navigate closed systems – whether it’s the patriarchy, the state, intolerance like in The Sandbag Dam or the expectations imposed on women’s bodies, as in Toxic or Thus Spoke the Wind.
Notably, there is a significant presence of female directors and female-centered narratives this year. These filmmakers bring sharp insight and a multiplicity of perspectives – from Armenia, Turkey, and Latvia to Lithuania and beyond. The diversity of countries is matched by a diversity of forms and tones: political thriller, cryptic fairy tale, dark satire, and intimate drama all coexist in a landscape that is as contradictory as the world itself.
Together, these talented works do not offer easy answers. Instead, they illuminate complex emotional and ethical terrains. Whether in the face of disaster, systemic oppression, or personal betrayal, these films insist on the importance of empathy, imagination, and resistance.
ANGELO DANS LA FORÊT MYSTÉRIEUSE
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