Gillian Garcia

Darkroom

Asli Baykal’s Darkroom, created with the young participants of the Sirkhane Darkroom Workshop in a border town between Turkey and Syria, opens the screening program. In it, children roam the area, looking at the world through the viewfinders of analog cameras, in an intimate vision of the medium as a form of play and a way to forge an alternate reality in a conflict zone.

Nadine Nortier

Three street-cast actors perform Mouchette's gestures with unwitting knowledge of Robert Bresson or his 1967 film. What emerges is a portrait of each girl, who in their final task, hum the notes of their own spontaneous music.