RHIZOMEMIND
A Lab for Mapping Digital Environmentalism(s)
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Damien Hauser
Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, 2025
79 min
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In 2093, filmmaker Kuve travels to Umata to document the aftermath of a war that revived ancient kingdoms. There, he meets Mumbi, who challenges him to make his film without the use of AI. As Kuve searches for his own voice, he begins to realize that even in a broken world, beauty can be found in the small human moments we often overlook.
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Pedro Ramalhete
Portugal, 2025
71 min 31 secs
Love, cinema and naivety. They meet randomly in the street: João is unemployed, Clara is a cinema production assistant. They remember each other from film school. She invites him to come along in this film she's working on. Eternal Flame is a melancholic comedy about the dynamics of a film crew and about finding your own place. A homage to the family of Portuguese cinema and to cinema itself, a film that reflects on a precarious generation, a generation defined by interiority and the self. You will see a Camera speak.
Emerging Vision: Student Showcase
BlankBox
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Canada
30 min
In a future where an AI called BlankBox has erased all pain from human life, a teenage boy journeys to find something that no longer exists: love.
Roko's Ruin
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William Bannerman
Canada
16 min 17 secs
An aspiring documentary crew investigates a top secret men's mental health treatment facility that specializes in disorders related to AI. However, the secrets they uncover there are much darker than they could ever have imagined.
One Crawls Over the Spider's Web
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Dhananjay Nachar
Canada
8 min 30 secs
A wickedly stylish, pulp comedy about a sassy fly thief, Sam, whose attempt at robbery traps her with a hot stud, a widow's love triangle, and a murder, where she becomes a fly trapped in a spider's web.
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