Other less visible wars, other victims perish in the horror of the US penitentiary system. A brief, disturbing jurney into a U.S. Women's prison narrated by, and dedicated to a woman who later committed suicide in her cell.

Using a fragment of 1970's porn, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has worked frame by frame upon the film body. This erasure creates a new pornography, a film in which the woman exists only as an empty, animated hole.

Passing the Rainbow looks at ways of subverting the strict gender norms in Afghan society, in areas like performance and film production as well as in daily and political life. A theatre company run by a young teacher in Kabul who moonlights as an actress, a policewoman who also directs action films, an activist with the organisation RAWA who defends the radical separation of State and religion, and Malek, who lives as if she were a boy in order to get a job: these women are the heroines of Passing the Rainbow.

My adored cat Zouina died a week before the tragedy; a week after, my garden died.

In the depths of aquatic worlds there is an amniotic fluid that connects us, immersing us in that place where gills are evident through bubbles, plankton and algae. Fluid, lactating worlds where the horizon is hazy and undulating. Where up or down is anywhere and everywhere at the same time.

After the sudden death of her mother from an accidental gunshot, Minda Martin pieces together her family’s history through the voices of those left behind. Shot in Super 8 and video, this intimate portrait gives voice to a working-class family in the American Southwest, shaped by poverty, loss, and resilience. Blending personal testimony with social critique, the film becomes both an act of remembrance and a stark reflection on life at the margins of contemporary America.

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