SMAFF X E.A.T.
Saturday, 24th January 2026 Chesa Gregori, Zuoz
An exclusive evening and dinner showcasing the three winning films from SMAFF 2025 at Engadine Art Talk, exploring the theme “Emerging Virtualities”.
Programme:
19:30 – Doors open
Performance by Trajal Harrell “Five Friends in Five Acts”
20:00 – SMAFF winning films
Fondue dinner
“Five Friends in Five Acts”
Performance by Trajal Harrell (2025)
Choreography, installation design, costumes, sound:
Trajal Harrell
Performers:
Trajal Harrell, Perle Palombe, Songhay Toldon
Five Friends in Five Acts’ is cocommissioned by Museum Ludwig, Holland Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Festival d’Automne, Tanzquartier Wien and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Photo credit: Rita Antonioli
The three winning films
by Marianna Simnett
Winner of Love at first sight – Kulm Prize
The film 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.
by Marina Xenofontos
Winner of Best Art Film – ArtReview Prize
During the 50th anniversary of the Cypriot Coup d’État, Overnight Coup Plan follows a group of girls from Limassol on their way to Ayia Napa, an open-air theme park for teens and tourists located beside one of the UK’s largest military bases on the island.
“Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims”
by Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva
Winner of Best Feature Film Prize
A speculative and poetic exploration of entanglements, the film, told from the perspective of the wind, takes us on a visual journey, exploring the many sites and histories of the Atacama desert.