Morning screening
10:20 | Official Opening of 2025 edition by SMAFF President Martin Hatebur and introduction by the Artistic Director Stefano Rabolli Pansera and the Managing Director Diana Segantini
10:30 | Panorama, Amie Siegel
2023 ยท colour ยท USA ยท No dialogue ยท 70โ ยท Swiss premiere
In Panorama, the artist Amie Siegel examines the journey of natural history specimens from field collection to museum display, revealing how Western scientific expeditions extracted, preserved, and transformed cultural materials, shifting narratives of value, power, and representation in museum practices.
11:40 | Break
11:55 | Tropical Depression, Alexander Walmsley
2025 ยท colour ยท DE ยท En ยท 31โ ยท World premiere ยท In competition
Tropical Depression follows the life and death of 21 cyclones that took place in the southern Hemisphere during the 2023 to 2024 cyclone season. Combining found footage and text fragments with recorded footage of the storms within Microsoft Flight Simulatorโa videogame where weather is visualised in real-time using meteorological data.
12:30 | About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
2010 ยท colour and b/w ยท BE ยท Nl, En/en ยท 26โ
Simple diagrams and a number of ๏ฌlm fragments demonstrate the existence of parallel worlds, and prove that it is possible to place oneself therein.
12:45 | Talk with Jos de Gruyter
Afternoon screening
14:30 | Introduction ๏ฌrst part by Rosalia Namsai Engchuan
14:35 | Birth of the Seanรฉma, Sasithorn Ariyavicha
2004 ยท b/w ยท TH ยท No dialogue ยท 71โ ยท Swiss premiere
The city, the sea, and the unknown, soundless world. The sea is the place that holds all the memories of every being and everything in the world. Through the cracks of the sea emerge the images from which a tale of a lost city is woven the city in which its inhabitantsโ memories, dreams, emotions were vulnerable, fragile and in flux.
The film has been supported by the Thai Film Archive.
15:45 | Gelatin, Yagwang
2024 ยท colour ยท KR ยท Ko/en ยท 6โ ยท European premiere ยท In competition
Drawn by an anonymous flyer, Gelatin emerges from the seaโa spine made of taillights, a body ๏ฌtted with handles and a rearview mirrorshimmering under streetlights, gliding along the night road.
15:50 | Break
16:10 | Introduction second part by Rosalia Namsai Engchuan
16:15 | Mamelles Ancestrales, Tabita Rezaire
2019 ยท colour ยท DK, NL, SN ยท En ยท 61โ
Mamelles Ancestrales strives to establish pathways between heaven and earth, between the living and the dead, in a world where celestial bodies and ancestors are in constant dialogue.
17:15 | We are opposite like that, Himali Singh Soin
2019 ยท colour ยท NO, UK ยท En ยท 13โ
A poetic meditation on the cosmology of opposites, We are opposite like that navigates geopoetic entanglements between ice and ๏ฌre, north and south, memory and myth.
17:30 | Tropic Temper, Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
2024 ยท colour ยท SG ยท En, Baba Malay/en ยท 16โ ยท Swiss premiere ยท In competition
In Singaporeโs engineered paradise, a Peranakan ghost and an omniscient AI witness the city-stateโs ๏ฌnal mangroves surrendering to smart city projects while energy-hungry nymphs feast on the petrochemical dreams of the nation.
17:45 | ANG48, Chulayarnnon Siriphol
2022 ยท colour ยท TH ยท Th, En ยท 25โ ยท Swiss premiere
ANG48, a ๏ฌctional organisation representing a synthesis of Asian ๏ฌlm history, is embodied by women who act as cultural agents, dissolving and becoming invisible to build connections and support the rise of Asian women while honouring the legacy of Angsumalin from the novel Khu Kam.
Evening screenings
20:00 | Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36B (Made In England), Mike Kelley
2011 ยท colour ยท USA ยท 28โ
A surreal and theatrical exploration of power, trauma, and identity, told through a tableau of British decorative objects that enact a darkly satirical narrative inspired by Victorian and pop culture themes.
20:30 | The Lion in Motion, Kelvin Kyungkun Park
2021 ยท colour ยท KR ยท 5โ
A lion never stops moving.
20:35 | First person, Chao Tang
2023 ยท colour ยท CN ยท Cn/en ยท 17โ ยท European premiere
In First Person, Tang Chao electronically processes social and natural landscapes and collages and juxtaposes images in a fast-paced manner, monitoring the intimacy and distance of our mediated existence.
20:55 | Leda Was a Swan, Marianna Simnett
2025 ยท colour ยท DE ยท No dialogue ยท 5โ ยท Swiss premiere ยท In competition
Leda Was a Swan unfolds as an enmeshment of flesh and feathers, in which an ancient, violent myth is unravelled as an embodied story of pleasure. Originally commissioned as part of Pompeii Commitment.
21:20 | Break
21:30 | Times Parallax, Sรฉverin Guelpa
2025 ยท colour ยท CH ยท En ยท 23โ ยท In competition
The ๏ฌlm explores the paradoxical tensions between the accelerating time of technological progress and the opposing, slower time of nature and geology. A time beyond the ticking of machines, where the Earth reminds us of other rhythmsโthe changing seasons, the ebb and flow of tides, and the erosion that sculpts mountains.
21:55 | Talk with Sรฉverin Guelpa
22:15 | Hunga Tonga, Superflex
2019 ยท colour ยท CH ยท To, Da/en ยท 22โ ยท Swiss premiere
Hunga Tonga invites the viewer to experience time like a volcanic island, an ancient microscopic organism, and the ocean.
22:40 | Each Branch Of Coral Holds Up The Light Of The Moon, Anicka Yi
2024 ยท colour ยท USA ยท no dialogue ยท 16โ ยท Swiss premiere
A pioneering video artwork by Anicka, the ๏ฌlm is the ๏ฌrst work created in collaboration with her Emptiness softwareโan evolving digital extension of the studio that reimagines artistic presence beyond physical and temporal boundaries.