HIDDEN GROUNDS

HIDDEN GROUNDS

Monday 4 May, Cavendish Hotel, 18:00

Shorts Synopsis

Voyeur

Iran | 2024 | 5’5” | Drama

Dir. Maryam Hashempour

While waiting for a friend, a girl receives a

photograph of herself from an unknown

number, taken moments before she entered

a café. The image keeps returning,

turning an ordinary wait into an unsettling

encounter with an unseen observer.

Mukunan, Apprentice Shaman

Brazil | 2025 | 24’59” | Documentary

Dir. Rodrigo Sena

Mukunã is preparing to become the shaman

of the Potiguara Katu Brasil village.

Powerful plants, older than humans, act

as his teachers in caring for the environment.

The film denounces deforestation

in the territory, which poses a direct threat

to the lives of the indigenous people.

Cell Buddies

Netherlands | 2025 | 05’11” |

Comedy, Animation

Dir. Melle Windig, Hidde Alberts

Sam, a grumpy raccoon is stuck sharing

a cell with Bob, a sweet but dim manatee.

Sam hatches an escape plan. In their chaotic

jailbreak Sam’s hardened edges soften

as Bob’s loyalty shines.

Brawn in Black

Iran | 2025 | 11’33” | Drama

Dir. Mahyar Mirpayab

As a couple prepares to emigrate, the

discovery of a series of mysterious

sketches fuels the husband’s growing

suspicion, leading him toward a truth that

may never have existed.

The 2400

Canada | 2025 | 05’00” | Drama

Dir. David Scott Titus

Fascist and authoritarian violence may

not be directed at you, but eventually

it will its way to your doorstep. When it

does, will you be able to do what’s right?

Les champs de la colonisation

France | 2025 | 22’53” | Experimental

Dir. Nicolas Pirus

In the early 19th century, Jacques

François Roger built a castle in Senegal

and developed the fields of an experimental

farm around it. The madness of

a dream of conquest and domination

intertwined with a conception of agriculture

as a strategy of occupation. But

the plants and the inhabitants of Waalo

resisted.

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