*Note*: daytime screenings take place at The Dracula’s Ghost Riders Club, while the evening screenings are hosted at the **Scala Cinema, unless otherwise indicated.
Third Movement: Music as Space
10:30 | Introduction to the movement by Stefano Rabolli Pansera
10:40 | Desire Lines, Tommy Malekoff
2019 · US · colour · 16’ · In competition
An ecstatic ode to the surreal potential of parking lots across America, in an infinite loop.
10:55 | Till Ashes Turn into Pines, Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Chen Zhan, Mengfan Wang
2025 · CN/UK · 9’ · World premiere · In competition
Set in an ordinary village on the outskirts of Wuhan, the film follows the intertwined lives of grannies and the surrounding pinewoods, where history unfolds through the material metabolism of everyday life.
11:05 | Talk with Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
11:25 | Break
11:40 | The floor all around me, Susanne Bürner
2024 · FR/DE · colour · En · 13’ · Swiss premiere · In competition
In a 1970s cast concrete housing complex in Bordeaux, people interact with the buildings in a playful way attuned to the rhythm of the space, turning the concrete structures into active counterparts in a shared choreography.
11:55 | Talk with Susanne Bürner
12:15 | Spoken Movement Family Honour, Daniel Gurton
2025 · UK · colour · En · 10’ · Swiss premiere
In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.
12:25 | Still, Shuang Li & Osheyack
2022 · CH/DE · colour · En · 3′
An image that’s trying to get rid of its shadow.
12:28 | Il Frutto, Massimo Bartolini
1990 · IT · colour · 3’
A dancer suspended from a tree and a double bass player improvising without having seen the choreography create an unpredictable dialogue between body and sound. A work that deconstructs the relationship between music and movement, evoking the painful memory of Strange Fruit.
12:31 | Three Minutes, Anri Sala
2004 · colour · 3’
Edited frame by frame, the film gradually strips the object of its normative associations. Anri Sala was interested in creating a new efficiency for the object, one which would resist initial expectations: the very reason why it was manufactured, or even invented, its raison d’être.
12:35 | I can only dance to one song, Arash Fayez
2021 · ES · colour · 11’ · Swiss premiere
Across Barcelona, migrants reclaim public and private spaces by dancing to a song that holds their past, tracing the invisible connections between movement, memory, and the search for belonging.
12:46 | Futures Yard, Lee Scratch Perry
2019 · JM/CH · colour · En, Patois · 12′ · World premiere · In competition
Singing, collaging, and ritual burnings: the film features video fragments by Lee Scratch Perry recorded between his two studios in Jamaica and Switzerland, giving a rare insight into his day-to-day practice as a multidisciplinary artist.
Fourth Movement: Choreography
15:00 | Introduction to the movement by Stefano Rabolli Pansera
15:10 | Silvesterchläusen, Andrew Norman Wilson
2025 · CH/US · colour · 12’ · In competition
Silvesterchläusen is a mysterious tradition that takes place every New Year’s Eve in the most conservative region of Switzerland. Nobody knows how or why it began.
15:25 | Talk with Andrew Norman Wilson
15:40 | Break
15:55 | The Chronicle of A.M. Bach, Ken Okiishi
2026 · CH, FR, US · colour · Fr, En/en · 104’ · European premiere
The Chronicle of A.M. Bach stars harpsichordist Jean-Luc Ho, who refuses to play the part of J.S. Bach; Okiishi starts filming his producer, Jeanne Graff, breast-feeding her child while they listen to Ho play Bach on the radio during a dance rehearsal. Movement through this radically suspended time-space invites new relations between social space, listening, and how we experience history, entropy and cohesion.
17:40 | Talk with Ken Okiishi
**20:00 | Ennio, Giuseppe Tornatore
2021 · IT, BE, CH/JP · colour · It/en · 156′
Ennio is a well-rounded portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
**Venue: Scala Cinema