Experimenta
The Chorus that Carries
- Runtime
- 73 min
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Screenings
O River, We Forced You to Chew Up Their Crops
Director-screenwriter
Philip Rizk
Egypt 2026. 18min
Three intergenerational fables rooted in Nubian cosmologies confront the erasures wrought by the Aswan High Dam, tracing the rupture between people, the Nile and ancestral knowledge passed down through stories.
You dreamt you saw yourself but couldn’t see your face
Director-screenwriter
Shireen Seno
Philippines-USA 2026. 7min
This lyrical elegy transforms water, memory and scattered ashes into a meditation on loss, where acts of remembrance and filmmaking become intertwined processes of becoming.
Endless Sunlight
Director
Tyson Houseman
Canada 2026. 8min
Across five generations of matriarchal lineage, Kokum Penny Roan’s testimony becomes a powerful living record of indigenous defiance against settler colonial oppression.
Content warning
Contains racist attitudes and language.
The Centre Cannot Hold
Director-screenwriter
Ufuoma Essi
UK-France 2026. 40min
Through speculative poetic narrative and tactile 16mm imagery, Corsica’s serene landscape gradually uncovers the island’s complex histories of belonging.
O River, We Forced You to Chew Up Their Crops
Director-screenwriter
Philip Rizk
Egypt 2026. 18min
Three intergenerational fables rooted in Nubian cosmologies confront the erasures wrought by the Aswan High Dam, tracing the rupture between people, the Nile and ancestral knowledge passed down through stories.
You dreamt you saw yourself but couldn’t see your face
Director-screenwriter
Shireen Seno
Philippines-USA 2026. 7min
This lyrical elegy transforms water, memory and scattered ashes into a meditation on loss, where acts of remembrance and filmmaking become intertwined processes of becoming.
Endless Sunlight
Director
Tyson Houseman
Canada 2026. 8min
Across five generations of matriarchal lineage, Kokum Penny Roan’s testimony becomes a powerful living record of indigenous defiance against settler colonial oppression.
Content warning
Contains racist attitudes and language.
The Centre Cannot Hold
Director-screenwriter
Ufuoma Essi
UK-France 2026. 40min
Through speculative poetic narrative and tactile 16mm imagery, Corsica’s serene landscape gradually uncovers the island’s complex histories of belonging.