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PROGRAM

Saturday, September 13, 2025  

Moosa Lane | Pakistan | Dir: Anita M. Hopland | 2022 | 85’ | VOSE | Documentary. 

This is a personal family epic, in which the Pakistani-born director Anita Mathal Hopland recounts the history of her two families. Moosa Lane is the name of the street in Pakistan’s capital, Karachi, where half of Hopland’s family lives, while the other half lives in Denmark. The author of this documentary brings a very intimate glimpse of the lives of the three younger members of the family and their experiences with life and death. The filmmaker explores the younger generation of her age in Pakistan, while also trying to show the personal experience of someone who lives between two cultures, as is her case. Her circumstances allow her, however, to discover what unites and separates her from her country and culture of origin, and to realize that she is not as far away as it might seem at first glance.

Anita Mathal Hopland (Kanachi, 1981) graduated form the National Film School of Denmark in 2011 with her graduation short film Underneath the Dark. Hopland made her feature film directorial debut in 2017 with the documentary On the Edge of Freedom, followed by Lost Warrior in 2018 and, finally, Moosa Lane in 2022.

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Saturday, September 20, 2025 

Trek to Neverland | India | Dir: Aniket Dabas | 2022 | 105’ | VOSE | Drama

Ekansh witnesses the havoc of finding a political voice in India when a peaceful university protest turns into a riot. He then embarks on a camping trip with «hippie» campers to find his own political and philosophical voice.  

Aniket Dabas is director, developer and executor based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He studied at the Technical University of Uttar Pradesh, earing a Bachelor of Technology degree. He later completed a certified course in embedded systems (microprocessors) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Finally, he obtained a Master’s degree in Cinematography and Film/Video Production from the University of Central Lancashire. Hes has worked on several film productions, but is best known for his works Phata Poster Nikhla Hero (2013), Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana (2017) and Trek to Neveland (2022).

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Saturday, September 27, 2025    

Looking for Rohmer | China | Dir: Wang Chao | 2018 | 85’ | VOSE | Drama, LGBTQIA+ 

It’s the first LGBTQIA+ film to be approved for release in China. The story begins with the first encounter between the protagonists and their subsequent secret relationship. Zhao Jie and Rohmer decide to travel together to Tibet and on their way they get involved in an incident that ends in the death of a child. Although they are not responsible for what happened, they feel so guilty that they cannot stop arguing about it and end up separating. However, when Zhao Jie learns that Rohmer has had an accident on a glacier, he goes in search of his friend with the intention of helping him and preventing the same thing form happening to him as happened to the child they were unable to save.

Wang Chao enrolled at the Beijing Film Academy, where he graduated in 1994 and began working as a film critic. This is how he met Chen Kaige after the filming of Yellow Earth, who hired him as an assistant director between 1995 and 1998 for the filming of Farewell My Concubine (1993) and The Emperor and the Assassin (1998). During that time, he wrote several short stories that would serve as inspiration for future film scripts. With Orphan of Anyang (2001), which he shot whitout authorization, he mad his directorial debut. This film was selected in 2001 to participate in the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, he mad his second feature film, Day and Night, and in 2006 whit Luxury Car, he completed the triology on China that he had been working on for more that five years. His fourth and fifth films, Memory of Love (2009) and Fantasy (2014), which stand out for the director’s narrative maturity, were presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Looking for Rohmer (2018), reveals Wang Chao’s interest in the critic and filmmaker Eric Rohmer and the Nouvelle Vague, to the point of making a film about him, although not necessarily biographical. A Woman (2022), his latest film to date, screened at the las edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona to great public acclaim, after its run in San Sebastián where it was nominated fot the Concha de Oro.

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Saturday, September 27, 2025 

Gergi | Mongolia | Dir: Sengedori Janchirjorj | 2020 | 91’ | VOSE | Drama

A happy and financially secure couple discovers that the husband has stage three cancer. Because it was discovered late, there is very little chance that he patient will survive the treatment. The wife refuses to give up and does everything in her power to save her husband. However, despite going abroad to seek other professionals and undergoing surgery, she will not achieve her goal. While trying to survive by any means possible, the victim recalls his happy times, his first love, his wife, and his family. The word Geri literally means «wife», but the root and structure of the word means «someone who lights up the home».

Sengedorj Janchivdorj graduated in film directing form the University of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Among the awards he has received is the Mongolian Academy Award for Best Director in 2016. His latest film, Life, won the awards for Best Feature Film at the Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival in 2018 an premiered at the Dhaka International Film Festival in 2019.