Between Sound and Silence

Each apartment contains a different life, as we see in this dilapidated apartment complex in Estonia. A dryly comic portrait of togetherness and loneliness, in which everyone is separated only by a thin wall.

The famous utopian housing complex Alterlaa in Vienna – usually portrayed as the built promise of a better life – from a perspective rarely seen, in this darkly humorous story about despair and hope.

In this tragicomic tale of resilience and urban transformation, a former sniper turned elevator operator wages a quiet battle against bureaucracy when her lift in a monumental housing block in Tbilisi breaks down.

Recreating the visual language of mid-century newsreels with AI generated images, the film presents Warsaw as a city whose identity is constantly reconstructed as a simulation layered over ruins. History, destruction, myth and ideology blur into a palimpsest of eternal reinvention. 

How does a self-driving car distinguish between a pavement or a pram? It turns out it’s not the car itself, but thousands of workers in the Global South. A short film about the hidden labour behind our luxury products.

An elderly man in Palestine tries to keep the wall in front of his house as tidy as possible. Again and again, graffiti appears on it. Each time, he paints over it until he realizes something: the wall is a means of communication for the neighbourhood.