“Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people (..). I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth.” This quote is from Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. Pick a film, any film from the programme – it will be part of a genealogy of cinematic spells, mysteries, and wonders. Witness how the statues of Such Miracles Do Happen rise, sparkle,and walk! Experience the earthly delights and the sensual rhythms of The Convent Gardner! 

Yield to the mischief of the elderly ladies/witches of In the Midst of Chaos, There Was Shape! In Miisufy, explore the real life of Tamagotchi-like digital cats in the entrails of your smartphone! Learn why the seemingly mundane traffic circles of Saintonge Roundabout are strange and sacred islands. See what can appear when a mother addresses silent prayers in the empty, temple-like house of The Source of River, A Night Stream! Wonder is everywhere.

Foreword by the programme curator: A celebration of magic and wonders — everything that only cinema allows for and can find in the mundane and the invisible.